Verified Identity on Mastodon

Quickly and easily verify more pieces of your digital identity than with Mastodon alone

Jesse Tayler
3 min readNov 22, 2022

TruAnon lets you keep your identity safe and private. It helps you prove who you are without having to give away your personal information. Your identity remains separate from your account so it cannot be bought or sold.

Here’s a Mastodon instance you can try right now: https://infosec.exchange/auth/sign_up

Visit your TruAnon dashboard (http://truanon.com/dash) Add a dashboard card so you can enter the username to verify. This works the same as confirming other social Profiles such as GitHub, LinkedIn or Twitter.

There’s no editing HTML or hyperlinks to handle

Simply post some text by clicking Edit Bio then click “Check Now” to confirm.

List your TruAnon Profile or proof page links in your Profile Meta Data as you normally do.

TruAnon links will automatically indicate Verified ownership status along with a green checkmark. These links will never indicate verified if they are listed on any other Profile.

You control how others view and share your identity

TruAnon allows you to confirm things that were previously not possible on Mastodon. Now you can showcase more of the things you use to show off your digital life.

Importantly, each time you lock down pieces of your digital identity, you prevent fraudsters from using them and that means you help make the world a safer place.

Now your identity is separate from your account and nobody can steal it, or buy it or sell it again.

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