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Is my domain "burnt" when hosting my first Fediverse technology? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago by buedi@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi there,

I went through the documentation of GoToSocial and there are some pieces of information which confuse me. For example on the Deployment considerations, they state, that once you hosted a particular Fediverse service on your domain, you cannot switch to another technology. Further down in this article in the "Domain name" section it even gives me the impression that if you switch technologies on the same domain, this will in fact cause issues in the whole Fediverse.

Two questions came up when reading through this:

Is the ActivityPub protocol and the technologies that depend on it that fragile? Switching technologies on the same Domain would be something I would have just done without a further thought until I find the technology I want to use for years (and which I might still switch out to another one many years in the future).
It is not clear from the documentation if you can get around this by hosting the service I want to try under service1.example.com instead of example.com. The documentation states, that you can host your users under user@service1.example.com, but the API services still under example.com. This will not solve the root issue, right?

Getting a new domain for each Activitypub service I might try to implement and test / use does not really sound great to me. Maybe I just did not understand all of that properly and there is no issue?

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[–] buedi@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you very much for the technical insight. It makes clear why it is how it is and it is good to see that you can host Activitypub services on Subdomains... so the issue I thought that exists is not that big of an issue anymore. Also I love the discussion under your post, very interesting!

Thanks also to everyone else who replied!

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 2 days ago

One thing to keep in mind is ActivityPub isn't exactly made for social media in the sense most people use it nowadays. It's intended to be more like RSS feeds: you're support to subscribe to stuff like news sites and be able to bring it all into a content aggregator. Seen that way, its design makes a lot of sense.

It kinda works well for public microblogging as well. It's when you start involving moderation, voting, sharing, boosting that things get kinda weird.

I'll add some of my comments to that discussion.