2017-06-19 UTC
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ben_thatmustbeme sketchess: the basic concept is that the wiki uses indieauth.com (though you could write your own) which looks at your user page for rel=me links. it uses those to verify that you own that domain. so for twitter, it looks for rel=me to a twitter profile and that twitter profile links to your domain (with rel=me), and then verifies you own that twitter account via twitter API. For email, it knows that you claim you own