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Is there a way with Mastodon to have an account on a hosted server but use an ID from a domain you control? Like if I wanted to have my ID be @me@social.apitman.com but pay for an account on another server rather than have my own.

Seems like it should be possible with Let's Encrypt.

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You can take a look at https://masto.host if you want your own managed server, but you'll have to do your own inter-server moderation in that case.

Some third-party fediverse hosts allow you to point your own custom (sub)domain at the instance they operate for you; you can also just set up your own instance.

Not sure what Let's Encrypt would have to do with this, though.

Without Let's Encrypt or something similar it would be a pain to get TLS certs for every user's domain.

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