Unfortunately, no. The domain name of your Mastodon instance is an essential part of how it functions within the network, and it is impossible to change it without breaking federation. Let’s imagine you have an account @alice on a server Alice.com and follow @bob on the server Bob.com. Whenever @bob makes a post, his server (Bob.com) federates that post to … Read More
RE: Mastodon media storage
To clarify, when you or another user in your server follows a remote user, from that moment on, all new posts from that remote user start to federate with your server. By federate, you can think of a copy of those posts are stored in the database. If you follow 1000 remote users and another user on your server follows … Read More
Mastodon Full-text search with ElasticSearch
The default Mastodon search only returns results for posts that have federated with your server and include a hashtag. Mastodon supports ElasticSearch/Full-text search. When enabled, users on a Mastodon server can search posts related to themselves. Examples: Posts they published Posts they favourited Posts where they were mentioned Their direct messages This can be handy but requires a significant amount … Read More
Finding people to follow on Mastodon
Due to the decentralised nature of Mastodon, finding people to follow may be easier on large Mastodon servers but on smaller ones may require some looking around outside your server. In particular if you are joining a new server or smaller server that will be the case most often than not. If you have just installed a brand new Mastodon … Read More
Mastodon usernames different from the domain used for installation
By default when you install Mastodon on a domain, or subdomain, that will determine how the username of users on that Mastodon server will be. Example, if you install Mastodon on social.example.com a user on that server will be @myusername@social.example.com. This can be changed and you can install Mastodon on social.example.com but have your username be @myusername@example.com or even @myusername@differentdomain.com … Read More