I have my blog here and my mastodon account on hear-me.social, and have been trying to get it verified for some time now. Just today, with one small change, it looks like it’s working.
I set up my custom domain name and switched it over on name.com weeks ago and that worked seamlessly. No issues there.
I added the rel=“me” link tag to the head partial and confirmed that it appeared in the rendered HTML. I then linked back to my blog in my Mastodon profile. It would not appear as verified no matter what changes I made. I even tried using the Meta plugin, but that did nothing, either.
However today I noted that in my MB profile, my site field was still showing the https://tylerknowsnothing.micro.blog address. I updated that to my custom domain. I then added a link in my profile to the MB subdomain, just to see if that would verify.
When I checked Mastodon again, my custom domain was verified. I removed the subdomain, and the custom domain remains verified.
@manton can you please confirm that the profile domain needs to match the applied custom domain in order to properly verify on Mastodon? Thanks!