Post #1987431
2022-12-19 01:56 UTC
Replies (30)
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@eatonphil@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 01:58
@shanselman@hachyderm.io 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@hachyderm.io would turn up that would make more sense to me.
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@rowdypixel@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 01:59
@shanselman@hachyderm.io awesome. I wanted to set up my domain but it feels like way too much work to run a whole instance just for me. This is a nice compromise
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@jippi@expressional.social 2022-12-19 02:00
@shanselman@hachyderm.io it's such a huge quality of life to do that. I've tried to compile a list of most hosting platforms on https://guide.toot.as/guide/use-your-own-domain/ where it Wil generate the code for you 🎉 it's not perfect, but it's a start (and open source)
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@demophoon@mastodon.brittg.com 2022-12-19 02:12
@shanselman@hachyderm.io also great for things like having a consistent username to share without having to change it everywhere when you switch instances later on
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@amcjen@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 02:14
@shanselman@hachyderm.io This is awesome! I had no idea. 🖤
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@RolandOfGilead@mastodon.acm.org 2022-12-19 02:19
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I think it's a big deal that MSNBC started actively using their mastodon account today. That plus CNN and BBC is 90% of what I used Twitter for, and people like me could well be 30% or more of the Twitter base.
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@ddeptford@mas.to 2022-12-19 02:21
@shanselman@hachyderm.io thanks for the tip Scott!
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@lkanies@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 04:47
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I had no idea this spec existed. Thanks!
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@anant@social.anantshri.info 2022-12-19 06:01
@shanselman@hachyderm.io just remember this will act like a catchall. so @shanselman@hachyderm.io or @nobody@hanselman.com or @XYZ@hanselman.com all will point to your hachyderm.io id if you keep it static.
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@stefan@social.stefanberger.net 2022-12-19 06:08
@shanselman@hachyderm.io @mike@lap.social Would be cool if just a change in this file would be needed for switching instances to keep your account ID, followers. So the instance is basically backend.
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@mistial@defcon.social 2022-12-19 06:27
@shanselman@hachyderm.io while you are at it, if you use PGP/GPG, you can set up automatic key discovery. https://teknikaldomain.me/post/pgp-key-discovery-mechanisms-explained/ Basically, a PGP key goes in .well-known/openpgpkey/hu/[hash].
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@adipolak@mastodon.online 2022-12-19 06:57
@shanselman@hachyderm.io thanks fir sharing. how did you add emojis to your name?
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@dcreemer@sfba.social 2022-12-19 06:57
@shanselman@hachyderm.io nice! I have done this too — I appreciate the tip.
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@amxmln@mastodon.social 2022-12-19 08:01
@shanselman@hachyderm.io will that also take care of rel=me link verification? Because then I'd not have to remember to update my site when I switch instances. 🤔
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@dilski@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 08:49
@shanselman@hachyderm.io this is really cool. I hope that as we unwind from the centralised social medias, more folk use and take part in these open protocols. That sentence sounds very blockchain-bro-ish. I mean this in a "I love RSS and web forums" kinda way
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@sickcodes@sick.social 2022-12-19 09:07
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Thanks dude, adding now
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@heygambo@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 09:18
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Hey just added it! Thanks for the tip!
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@sstranger@techhub.social 2022-12-19 09:36
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I just did it for my Github pages blog site.
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@thomaslevesque@mastodon.cloud 2022-12-19 09:56
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I did it using Cloudflare Workers. This way I can easily apply it to all my domains!
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@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange 2022-12-19 11:20
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Oh, that's interesting. I'll try this today with my domain. Thanks.
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@warkittens@infosec.exchange 2022-12-19 11:23
@shanselman@hachyderm.io God, stop making me feel guilty for not seeing up my domain. /sarcasm obvs This is really awesome. I just need to... Set up my domain.
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@jaydisc@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 12:08
@shanselman@hachyderm.io This is great. Thanks!
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@eirliani@home.social 2022-12-19 12:36
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Super 😎 cool. Thank you, Scott!
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@andrew@alinke.com 2022-12-19 12:57
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I’ve never heard of this. Thanks. Will poke at it later today.
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@nygren@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 14:36
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Blog posts on how to set up WebFinger forwarding with Apache and ngnix: https://erik.nygren.org/mastodon-aliases.html https://gist.github.com/haykinson/e3b7004d8e7436bf4486964b89af4ca1
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@juno@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 17:12
@shanselman@hachyderm.io gist on how to set up Mastodon custom domain forwarding with GitHub Pages https://gist.github.com/junosuarez/012755df0243ad17d942ddf26eb707a7
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@craveytrain@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 18:16
@shanselman@hachyderm.io I had no idea. Thank you.
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@ben@m.twos.dev 2022-12-20 07:05
@shanselman@hachyderm.io @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange How does it know to call out to hanselman.com when @shanselman is entered?
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@prosumer@mastodon.social 2022-12-20 22:11
@shanselman@hachyderm.io Thanks! Found your post after setting up my own Pleroma instance, but I’m not sure how long that experiment will last. Can I reuse my “handle” (me@mydomain.tld) using this technique if/when I shut down my own instance? (Which is now serving the webfinger data for that handle)
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@bl@hachyderm.io 2022-12-22 21:04
@shanselman@hachyderm.io sweet! Going to setup mine. Thanks man!