There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

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The Washington Post article linked in “Read More” claims:

Thankfully, this isn’t specific to Mastodon alone — this method is a standard supported by other networks, which means The Post can support verification elsewhere in the future.

However, after a quick Google search, it seems only Mastodon supports this. All results for “fediverse verify” only mention Mastodon.

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