Mastodon author attribution for a Quarto blog

Now that Mastodon 4.3 has been released, it makes sense to think about one of the new features there: Author attribution. The idea is, that when a link from a website is shared on Mastodon¹, you get an additional link to the author’s Fediverse presence:

How does one enable that? I used Robb Knight’s post as a starting point. Basically you have to do two things:

• Add the domain you want to associate your account with under Public Profile > Verification > Author attribution:

• Add a meta element <meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@rstub@digitalcourage.social"/> to the HTML header.

For a Quarto website, the second step can be done using

format:
  html:
    include-in-header:
    - text: |
        <meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@rstub@digitalcourage.social"/>

in _quarto.yml. That’s all!