Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Dec 19, 2022
A reminder, if you own your own domain you can quickly setup webfinger like this https://www.hanselman.com/.well-known/webfinger (can just be a static file, or dynamic) so that if someone searches mastodon (use me as an example) for @shanselman then it will call out to my domain, find me, and tell you my aliases, which is my account at hachyderm.io. Cool eh? Should take you just a few min to implement!
Show threadPhil EatonDec 19, 2022

@shanselman if they just search for your mastodon username how do they know to check that domain?

If you said if someone searched mastodon for hanselman.com then @shanselman would turn up that would make more sense to me.

Show threadPeter SterneDec 19, 2022

@eatonphil @shanselman I think the idea is that you give out the alias instead of your "real" Mastodon username to people, the same way you give out your email alias instead of the gmail account that it forwards to.

So you'd tell people "find me on Mastodon at [email protected]" and then they'd search Mastodon for that and it would trigger the redirect, showing "[email protected]"

Show threadMidtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷
@petersterne @eatonphil @shanselman
I definitely need to investigate this.
I'm imagining a page where I actually tie together all my disparate kink accounts, including this one.
Dec 19, 2022 at 11:50amWeb