Proposal: Extend rel="me" protocol to protect pseudonymity and securely separate PII

[jtayler]

My software background is Digital Rights. I want to help secure our future world and see the greater good we hand off to our children. I focus on human safety, harm reduction, and data sovereignty.

People love the rel="me" protocol because it verifies websites and profiles you want to be known by, and this builds trust without authority, review or dispute.

We want to make it easier to confirm what's yours, and to make it possible for social or blog sites that don’t support HTML editing.

Mostly? We want to choose how we’re known: reveal verified properties or just a badge with the rank of confidence they represent.

https://github.com/jtayler/Mastodon-Dev-Test/blob/truanon-verified-identity/IDENTITY_VERIFICATION.md

This approach protects a community from those seeking to identify, harm or even subpoena PII from the platform while honoring the tradition of open standards, privacy and digital rights.

What I'm looking for:
We have been using this for some time. We have this patch/branch I'd like to put in front of interested people.

If you maintain an instance, or have opinions on how a verification badge should look, I'd love to hear!