Post #3198289
2022-12-19 01:58 UTC
@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.
Replies (3)
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@eatonphil@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 01:59
@shanselman@hachyderm.io or maybe I'm misunderstanding the point of aliases (or what they are in the first place 😅 )
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io 2022-12-19 01:59
@eatonphil@hachyderm.io anything @hanselman.com shows up
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@petersterne@mastodon.social 2022-12-19 09:26
@eatonphil@hachyderm.io @shanselman@hachyderm.io 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 phil@eatonphil.com" and then they'd search Mastodon for that and it would trigger the redirect, showing "eatonphil@hachyderm.io"