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Is there a way to find the Mastodon instance you yourself signed up on? I am pretty sure I already made a Mastodon account, but not on mastodon.social and based

Is there a way to find the Mastodon instance you yourself signed up on? I am pretty sure I already made a Mastodon account, but not on mastodon.social and based on the list of instances, nothing rings a bell. :-/ Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive… Good tip in the comments though, thanks!

Aissen 4y ago
Search your emails for "Welcome to Mastodon".
Kye 4y ago
>> "Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive…" They're waiting on a new database server to handle the load. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109262705755044079 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109262705755044079
anderspitman 4y ago
What we really need is for selfhosting to be as easy and secure as installing an app on your phone. Somewhat related: there should be a way to have a Mastodon ID based on a domain you control, regardless of what instance it's hosted on.
- WorldMaker 4y ago
  Webfinger technically supports that sort of delegation today in its spec: you can drop a /.well-known/webfinger JSON file on the domain's web server (or a cgi-bin app of some sort if you need to support more than one user because the protocol uses GET request parameters to differentiate) and tell ActivityPub servers "if you are looking for user anexample@thisdomain.com please forward to the inbox or check the outbox for anexample@mastodon.social". That works today for things like @ mentions or DMs of an account sending the right notifications. Unfortunately, this isn't yet the best experience because in many places including follows/follow requests Mastodon users will always see the forwarded address everywhere "anexample@mastodon.social" instead of the delegating address and so far as I'm aware there's no easy way to send messages addressed as the delegating address. It would be nice to see this improved.

Aissen 4y ago

Search your emails for "Welcome to Mastodon".

Kye 4y ago

>> "Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive…" They're waiting on a new database server to handle the load. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109262705755044079 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109262705755044079

anderspitman 4y ago

What we really need is for selfhosting to be as easy and secure as installing an app on your phone. Somewhat related: there should be a way to have a Mastodon ID based on a domain you control, regardless of what instance it's hosted on.

WorldMaker 4y ago
Webfinger technically supports that sort of delegation today in its spec: you can drop a /.well-known/webfinger JSON file on the domain's web server (or a cgi-bin app of some sort if you need to support more than one user because the protocol uses GET request parameters to differentiate) and tell ActivityPub servers "if you are looking for user anexample@thisdomain.com please forward to the inbox or check the outbox for anexample@mastodon.social". That works today for things like @ mentions or DMs of an account sending the right notifications. Unfortunately, this isn't yet the best experience because in many places including follows/follow requests Mastodon users will always see the forwarded address everywhere "anexample@mastodon.social" instead of the delegating address and so far as I'm aware there's no easy way to send messages addressed as the delegating address. It would be nice to see this improved.