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Making your Mastodon account discoverable from your domain, using Cloudflare page rules
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Making your Mastodon account discoverable from your own domain, using Cloudflare page rules

Are you (1) moving to Mastodon, but (2) want to use your own Cloudflare-hosted domain for discoverability, and (3) don't want the hassle of managing your own instance?

Well, here's a quick way to make sure that folks can find you when they search Mastodon with your domain. The UX is like this:

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(If you're not on Cloudflare or would rather just host a file, use Maarten Balliauw's post, How to discover Mastodon account via custom domain, from which this technique was inspired.)

Steps

  1. Go to the Cloudflare dashboard at https://dash.cloudflare.com, then
  2. click on the domain you want to use, then
  3. click Rules in the left sidebar, then
  4. click Create Page Rule, then
  5. for the URL, enter {domain-name}/.well-known/webfinger* (for me it's jed.is/.well-known/webfinger*), then
  6. for the setting, choose Forwarding URL, then
  7. for the status code, choose 302 - Temporary Redirect, then
  8. for the destination URL, enter https://{mastodon-domain}/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:{username}@{mastodon-domain} (for me it's https://mastodon.social/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:jed@mastodon.social).

Once you're done the screen should like like this, at which point you click Save and Deploy Page Rule to make it official.

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