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This is much more difficult for normal users. You'd need to set up your domain of example.org to have some form of SRV or TXT record to say "example.org" point
by TheHappyOddish 4y ago
This is much more difficult for normal users.
You'd need to set up your domain of example.org to have some form of SRV or TXT record to say "example.org" points to "mastodon.social", or even records per user if you wanted granularity.
You could also use .well-known or other domain verification/pointer methods. However if I'm joe@gmail.com, how does another user on mastodon know how to contact me? Where is my home server?
Someone could maintain a centralised lookup DB with auth to show you own the address (and I believe Matrix allows for that optionally), however isn't that the opposite of what the fediverse is meant to be?
- mindslight 4y agoIt only looks difficult because the custom has not been created for advanced users, to then trickle down into functionality for basic users. If you own a domain, you or your registrar configures the appropriate A/SRV/TXTs to point services at your chosen service provider, just like is already done. If you use something like Gmail, then you're looking at Google to run a Mastodon server or at least a stub redirection server.