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You can use your domain on Mastodon via WebFinger, you don’t need to necessarily self host it.
by Klonoar 4y ago
You can use your domain on Mastodon via WebFinger, you don’t need to necessarily self host it.
- simonw 4y agoThat's what I'm doing right now - my personal site is https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/ and serves WebFinger - my Mastodon instance is https://fedi.simonwillison.net/ https://fedi.simonwillison.net/ which is hosted by https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/ (just because I don't want to sysadmin it). The problem is that you can't have multiple domains point to a single Mastodon instance. I'd like to share my single instance with friends who can bring their own domain name. Basically the problem is that current Mastodon only supports single settings for the LOCAL_DOMAIN and WEB_DOMAIN. More details on how mine works here: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodon https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoThere is an open GitHub issue to add that functionality! If anyone is able to help your work would be appreciated! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668
- Klonoar 4y agoAhh, okay, this makes more sense now - appreciate the breakdown!
- mwcampbell 4y agoI know of an organization that just advertised their new Mastodon instance as being at social.[domain].com. Is it too late now for them to start using WebFinger and advertise Mastodon handles at simply [domain].com?
- singpolyma3 4y agoThey would have to change all their addresses, but the advertise account change thing might be enough depending on need