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!
Footnotes
I am not using the more general and in many cases more appropriate “Fediverse” here, because I haven’t checked if any other Fediverse software is using this feature (yet).↩︎