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 threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Dec 19, 2022
@eatonphil anything @hanselman.com shows up
Show threadPhil EatonDec 19, 2022
@shanselman errr to clarify I mean once you have the web finger file set up, is the idea that they should only need to know your username or that they should only need to know your domain to find you?
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Dec 19, 2022
@eatonphil meaning my friends know my email so they can easily find me AND I don't have to host mastodon at my domain. My email is also my mastodon
Show threadJim Vernon
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Dec 20, 2022 at 6:54amWeb