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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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Here's a link to a better description of what someone is trying to do with webfinger. It's critical to federation, and services piggybacking on mastodons configuration sort of break that - eg a pixelfed instance querying for user@domain.tld (trying to follow the pixelfed user for that user) would end up returning the mastodon profile. And while that works, and the third party pixelfed instance will follow the mastodon user, the pixelfed user won't get that follow. Federation will end up being broken on pixelfed, IIRC.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/use-your-own-user-domain-for-mastodon-discoverability-with-the-webfinger-protocol-without-hosting-a-server