I like when my dog stares at me, I find it cute. She usually stops if you pay no mind to it. Besides, I also keep staring at her when she's all cuddled up or just chilling in general, so I don't think I can complain.
I like mastodon's solution. That is, validate a public identity, like a site, your site appears on your profile and it's only verified it you have proof inside the site itself.
On this specific case, the Sync team may have their lemmy users on the Sync site.
Thank you!