Attempting to add a mastodon verification link to verify a website might end up unsuccessfully with default hugo settings. This is due to the fact that recent hugo versions auto-minify HTML, and in particular strip quotes from tag attributes, producing HTML like this:

<a rel=me href=https://mastodon.social/@particleflux>Mastodon</a>

Turns out the mastodon verification check doesn’t like that.

This behavior can be switched off with the following setting:

minify.tdewolff.html.keepQuotes = true

ie in toml style:

[minify]
minifyOutput = true

[minify.tdewolff]
    [minify.tdewolff.html]
        keepQuotes = true