Three Mastodon issues because of Cloudflare Bot protection

I noticed some time ago that three Mastodon features had stopped working on my blog. Each of them seemed like a separate problem, but they had the same root cause. In this blog post, I want to describe these issues and the simple fix. Domain verification Mastodon allows you to prove that you own a domain. The mechanism requires two steps: Add a tag in your pages, pointing to your Mastodon profile Add your website URL to your Mastodon profile When Mastodon crawls your page and finds the backlink,