@prologic@twtxt.net have you considered adding rel="me" to “User Links”?

(#knoga2q) @prologic@twtxt.net The me value of the HTML rel attribute indicates that the linked page is the same user’s profile on another site. It’s useful for identity consolidation, enabling things like RelMeAuth on the IndieWeb. So it would be nice to be able to have that attribute on links to one’s own website (and to one’s profiles on other sites) from the “User Links” section of our profiles here.

(#knoga2q) @prologic@twtxt.net If you check out someone’s GitHub profile that has a link to that person’s own website, for example you’ll find rel="me" on the link.

(#knoga2q) @prologic@twtxt.net another nice example is how Mastodon show’s a user’s external link to their own website as “verified” if the target site includes a rel="me" link back to their Mastodon profile, since this “proves” that the person has control of the linked site. I think I’ve seen other sites use it for verification in the same way.

(#knoga2q) @prologic@twtxt.net Ah sorry, gotcha. 😀
Hmm, you make an interesting point. I would assume that most links a user would add would be to their own profiles, but maybe not all?
The Metadata spec says “A link to some other resource which is often connected to the feed or author”.
I think my inclination would be yes, add it to all of them, but I can also see that a user could put links there that aren’t their own. 🤔

(#knoga2q) @prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, short of “clarifying” the spec to specifically state that links must be to the user’s own sites, it’s hard to think of a universal solution. I think I’d still err towards assuming that links are to the user’s own pages, since I think they will be in almost all cases, but obviously there’s an argument to be made against making that assumption, too…

(#knoga2q) @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com Ugh, please no! 😫 As a user I hate those interstitial pages, because they add an unwanted step between me and the page I’m trying to get to, and they obscure the real target of the link (also they’re often used for user tracking). And as a web geek I hate the fact that they break the semantic model of a link pointing to its real target, turning external links into faux internal ones.