# Federation Not Working Properly **URL:** \ **Category:** Instance Admins\ **Created:** [September 25, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-not-working-properly/13197 "2024-09-25T19:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![markwyner](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/markwyner/32/4193_2.png) [@markwyner](https://discuss.write.as/u/markwyner)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-not-working-properly/13197/2 "2024-09-25T23:43:53Z")
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](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-issue/13102/2): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.write.as/t/federation-not-working-properly/13197)._