Adding verifiable mastodon link to social media icon

[carlosmalt]

I would like to display my current social media link to my mastodon account and make it verifyable by the Mastodon community. My content/authors/admin/_index.md contains:

- icon: mastodon
  icon_pack: fab
  link: https://[some Mastodon server]/@Carlos

To make it verifiable, I need hugo to generate not only a link for the icon but also a rel attribute so that the generated html looks something like this:

<a rel="me" href="https://[some Mastodon server/@Carlos">[Mastodon icon]</a>

When I then link my Wowchemy website to my Mastodon account, the Mastodon server is verifying that I own my website by looking for such a link .

Is there any way to accomplish that?

[Nosferican]

Try something like

- icon: mastodon
    icon_pack: fab
    link: https://fo.llow.social/u/Carlos@SomeMastodonServer
    label: Follow me on Mastodon
    display:
      header: true

For sharing

[[buttons]]
  id = "mastodon"
  title = "Mastodon"
  icon_pack = "fab"
  icon = "mastodon"
  url = "https://fo.llow.social/share?title={mtitle}&url={url}&via=Carlos%40SomeMastodonServer"
  enable = true

[carlosmalt]

Thanks -- but I'm not sure I understand how this would address my problem. And I'm hesitant to use the fo.llow.social URL without knowing more about that service.

However, @poehlerflorian's pull request would directly address it. Hopefully someone will review it soon.

[Nosferican]

It's one of the new tooling that devs have posted on reddit see:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/zm3580/share_button_follow_button_and_timeline_embed/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z5pn09/introducing_tootpick_an_easy_to_use_share_with/ (this one has a link to the GitHub repo)