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Add site verification to manual

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@ -417,6 +417,23 @@ confident in an erroneous conclusion. Setting a city somewhere near to
your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone">time zone</a> is
preferable, so that it matches your typical pattern of daily posting
activity without giving away your real location.</p>
<h3 id="verifying-your-website-or-blog">Verifying your website or
blog</h3>
<p>It is possible to indicate that a website of blog belongs to you by
linking it to your profile screen. Within the <em>head</em> html section
of your website or blog index page include a line similar to:</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb18"><pre
class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb18-1"><a href="#cb18-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="op">&lt;</span>link <span class="va">rel</span><span class="op">=</span><span class="st">&quot;me&quot;</span> <span class="va">href</span><span class="op">=</span><span class="st">&quot;https://YourEpicyonDomain/@YourNickname&quot;</span> <span class="ex">/</span><span class="op">&gt;</span></span></code></pre></div>
<p>If you edit and then publish your profile, with the <em>website</em>
and/or <em>blog</em> fields completed then if the above link is found
your sites will be indicated to be verified on your profile screen. When
verified they will appear in green with a tick.</p>
<figure>
<img src="manual-verified-website.jpg"
alt="Profile screen showing verified website" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Profile screen showing verified
website</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 id="roles">Roles</h2>
<p>If you are the administrator then within your profile settings you
can also specify roles for other accounts on the instance. A small

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### Geolocation spoofing
Within the *filtering and blocking* section you can also set a city which will be used for geolocation spoofing. When you post a photo, instead of removing all metadata spoofed metadata will be added in order to consistently fool the machine learning systems behind web crawlers or scrapers, and create a [confirmation bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias) effect where the surveillance systems become increasingly confident in an erroneous conclusion. Setting a city somewhere near to your [time zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone) is preferable, so that it matches your typical pattern of daily posting activity without giving away your real location.
### Verifying your website or blog
It is possible to indicate that a website of blog belongs to you by linking it to your profile screen. Within the *head* html section of your website or blog index page include a line similar to:
```bash
<link rel="me" href="https://YourEpicyonDomain/@YourNickname" />
```
If you edit and then publish your profile, with the *website* and/or *blog* fields completed then if the above link is found your sites will be indicated to be verified on your profile screen. When verified they will appear in green with a tick.
![Profile screen showing verified website](manual-verified-website.jpg)
## Roles
If you are the administrator then within your profile settings you can also specify roles for other accounts on the instance. A small instance is like a ship with the roles being crew positions, and all members of the crew need to work together to keep the ship afloat. The current roles are: