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There are two important pieces to your Tent identity. 1: Your Entity (this is the url you're referring to. I could be https://jonathan.tent.is https://jonathan
by Titanous 14y ago
There are two important pieces to your Tent identity.
1: Your Entity (this is the url you're referring to. I could be https://jonathan.tent.is https://jonathan.tent.is and then change to https://titanous.com https://titanous.com). Think of entities like a name. You can change it but you really want to think carefully first. Other Tent servers know you by your entity. If all you told someone was your entity (https://spindritf.net https://spindritf.net) their Tent server would contact the URL where you have saved information about your Tent server. It's all you need to find out someone's Tent information or start following them, like a username. When you change your entity, your server sends out a post to all your followers and lets them know about a profile update with a new entity URL so they can update their records.
2: Your "canonical tent URLs" (the addresses of the servers where you can be reached). These are literally like your address. You can have multiple addresses and move any time you want. Again, your server will simply send a post to your friends letting them know you're moving and where to reach you. In both of these cases you probably want to give other servers some time to update their records before moving just in case.
There are a few edge cases worth mentioning. This system does not actually depend on DNS, but most users will. For example, instead of https://titanous.com https://titanous.com I could theoretically list an IP address instead or a tor hidden service.
- leejoramo 14y agoSo if I wanted to just my own domain, and not leejoramo.tent.is what do I do? I am assuming that it would be something like this: <link href="https://leejoramo.tent.is https://leejoramo.tent.is rel="????" /> and how to I configure things on the tent.is account?