aminb@Gargron Hey, if I'm running mastodon on a subdomain (using WEB_DOMAIN), would it be possible to switch to top level (i.e. make WEB_DOMAIN same as LOCAL_DOMAIN) without breaking federation?
Eugen Rochko@aminb yes, that shooould be fine i think.
@Gargron Hmm, I just tried it quickly, but messages seemed to get lost; because e.g. mastodon.social thinks example.org is still handled by m.example.org. Any thoughts?
@aminb if you were running on WEB_DOMAIN other people were mentioning you by the *not* m.example.org domain though? only the links were that
@Gargron Yeah exactly. To be precise, the instance for @b runs at m.nda.li. However, when I temporarily commented out WEB_DOMAIN in .env and restarted, seemed like I broke the federation, in that no toots from mastodon.social accounts I follow would show up my personal instance anymore.
Is there anyway to let the other instances know that they should indeed look at nda.li instead of m.nda.li for author/actor URI?
(I know all of this is my fault and should've made my mind up beforehand)
@Gargron ... Also, I'd used this guide when setting up: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md#configuring-domainorg
So maybe it comes down to the fact that the instances I've talked to have cached that 301 permanent redirect and now unconditionally want to talk to m.nda.li? Is there any way around it?