For those of us developers whose social media accounts are on the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc) it’s important to be able to set up a reciprocal link to those accounts using the rel="me" HTML attribute. This allows Mastodon to verify our ownership of the URL. From Mastodon’s documentation:
You can verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata. For that, the linked website must contain a link back to your Mastodon profile. The link back must have a rel=“me” attribute.
Since itch.io only allows Twitter handles in our profile settings, I tried using the HTML view of the profile editor to manually add a link to my Mastodon account with that attribute, but it appears to be stripped off when I view my profile page. This means that a link from my Mastodon profile to my itch page won’t show up as verified on Mastodon.
Ideally, itch would allow us to link to any social media account and not just Twitter, and automatically add the rel="me" attribute. Barring that, itch should stop stripping the attribute from links in our pages’ HTML.