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Scott Hanselman ๐ธ๐ฝ๐๐ฎHOW TO: Use your own user @ domain for Mastodon discoverability with the WebFinger Protocol without hosting a server https://www.hanselman.com/blog/use-your-own-user-domain-for-mastodon-discoverability-with-the-webfinger-protocol-without-hosting-a-server
Aaron Powell 
@shanselman Is this a post about how to give everyone The Finger ๐
Eric Beaudry@shanselman thanks the tutorial!
James Woglom@shanselman the one thing I hope can eventually be supported by Mastodon (and/or activitypub) is letting your "aliased" name (i.e. [email protected]) act as your primary identifier despite actually using mastodon on your server of choice. So, e.g., your custom domain-ed name could be the identifier you see across the Mastodon UI since it's back-referenced to your alias set on the server. That way your identifier stays consistent even if you switch servers and could also == your email address.
Rob Pomeroy@jwoglom @shanselman The technical challenge there is that instances can defederate from other instances. So you'd need a global discovery service.
m@@shanselman Thanks for linking this! I discovered that GitHub Pages are now Jekyll builds by default, which was stripping my dot files.
Taeโlur Alexis@shanselman glad I found you on here lol! Hi Scott ๐๐
CrAIg Walls@shanselman So, let me get this straight (making sure I got this right)...If I set this up at habuma.com (and I have), then I can tell people to find me as @habuma and it will direct them to my real account at Fosstodon? If so, then...I think I'm done. Awesome. Thanks!
@shanselman After I posted that, Mastodon/Fosstodon replaced my full name with a shorter version. Replace that with [at]habuma[at]habuma.com. I think it's working.
Kavanaugh Latiolais@shanselman @anildash werenโt you looking for any easy way to use your own domain with a mastodon host https://www.hanselman.com/blog/use-your-own-user-domain-for-mastodon-discoverability-with-the-webfinger-protocol-without-hosting-a-server
Ellie@shanselman Just gonna slap this on all my vanity domains. ๐ค
shaun@shanselman Thanks, it works like a charm.
Adam@shanselman Oh wow!! That's cool.
Eugene Albulescu ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ช๐บ@shanselman wow. thatโs pretty complicated.
@hammerfelt can just be a single static file. 5 min.
Alan Sill@shanselman ๐๐ผ@DrCuff Hereโs one right up your alley. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/use-your-own-user-domain-for-mastodon-discoverability-with-the-webfinger-protocol-without-hosting-a-server
Chris Wood@shanselman guessing a good old URL rewrite would also do the job too and keep things up-to-date? Probably a proxying one rather than a redirect.
My only hesitation is that somebody somewhere will use it to get spammy or abusive with me once the dickheads start to migrate from the bird site too. Kept my profile private over there because I was fed up of the mob!
denvergail@shanselman Thanks! @DefiantT1D has been researching creation of a DOC Mastodon server. Maybe this is an option.
Mohammad Mustakim Ali@shanselman Great! I have my favorite username without hosting mastodon
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ladeak 
@shanselman yay another blog post, so greatly to see them back
Chris Kipp@shanselman Super helpful. Thanks! If anyone is following and uses Vercel for a simple static site the steps are super similar to Scott's blog:
1. Copy your webfinger from https://hachyderm.io/.well-known/webfi[email protected] (replace your username)
2. Add that static file to your site
3. Add a headers section to your vercel.json file to ensure the right content-type.
And that's it.
Tjeerd Hans@shanselman thanks for the tip!
Rob Bos@shanselman I've just set it up for Jekyll on GitHub pages: super straightforward!
Thomas Fritz ๐ผ@shanselman Thanks, thats awesome
Mario LassnigI just tried setting this up, and it seems to work. Can someone else give it a try --> (at)mario(at)lassnig.net
(for some reason it seems to autoconvert to @mlassnig automatically)
Frank van Puffelen@shanselman Ooh, that was way easier than expected (@puf for testing). Thanks Scott!
Jeff@shanselman Just set this up myself and it works! Thanks for the links to the more detailed explanations. One thing to note: this works within every single app Iโve tried on iOS (I have way too many installed lol). But it doesnโt seem to work from the web if you search directly from your instance. Thought it was just me, but your domain doesnโt come back either.
@box464 hm. Works on my instance on the web. Need the leading @ and to press enter.
@shanselman Working for me as well now, of course.
Robert George ๐ณ๐๐น๐๐ฅ๐๐@shanselman thanks for this. This is clever. I just did this for my email. @jdmar3 I think youโd dig this setup too.