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True or False Mastodon Hosting Question that I'm looking for a definitive answer on?
If you already have a personal website at say:
johndoe.com
Then it is not possible to create a Mastodon server where your address would be:
@ john @ johndoe.com
Correct?
Mastodon is often compared to email, but if the above is correct, as I suspect it is because Mastodon is effectively a website, then this is important.
(Spaces added so it doesn't go somewhere unintentional :))
One caveat: you must do this BEFORE you first start using your mastodon instance. You cannot change either of these on a running instance.
(Also some clients don’t display the username correctly. I.e. some clients will display my name as [@]michael[@]mstdn.thms.uk, but they will support at-mentioning and searching just fine, so it’s just a display issue)
@chris you could have the server software (mastodon or similar) accesible at Johndoe.com, Johndoe.com/folder or subdomain.johndoe.com
and then you could set it up the domain as @johndoe.com and any users you wish @john, @kate, etc, by setting up the .well-known and the webfingers and all of that in the main domain (so when another server tries to find where @john resides, it points to the right direction)
"WEB_DOMAIN is an optional environment variable allowing the installation of Mastodon on one domain, while having the users’ handles on a different domain, e.g. addressing users as @alice but accessing Mastodon on mastodon.example.com."
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