Federation Not Working Properly

[markwyner]

This one is a little tricky because the documentation and directional copy in customization aren’t entirely correct in the case of custom domains. I helped someone else figure this out here:

Federation issue

This one was a bit of a learning curve for me as well. Here’s my setup (also using a custom domain). Hopefully you can reproduce it for yours: My Write.as site domain: markwrites.io My Write.as username: markwyner My ActivityPub handle: @markwyner@write.as (note, it’s not my custom domain) Example Mastodon URL from my instance: mas.to/@markwyner@write.as But you can’t treat your handle like most fediverse instances because of the Write.as DNS is set-up. For example, my Mastodon handle i…