Thanks for clarifying and pardon my half-assed reading, I get the idea now!
I see the benefit of authenticating personal profiles and protecting people against account hijacking and fake accounts.
With "borderline narcissistic" I was referring to the fact that personal profiles are a giant part of the web nowadays (which is sad on some level) and creating even a special rel value for it felt like submitting to the current state of affairs.
Personal profiles were always a big part of the web; in the 90s, it was all those sites with URLs with a tilde (e.g. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/), and lots of pages on Geocities et all were also personal profiles.
I see the benefit of authenticating personal profiles and protecting people against account hijacking and fake accounts.
With "borderline narcissistic" I was referring to the fact that personal profiles are a giant part of the web nowadays (which is sad on some level) and creating even a special rel value for it felt like submitting to the current state of affairs.