Post by @stefano

@sturai@masto.es It's a mixed approach: you can have your official domain (like example.com) and still federate via mesh. But you (currently) cannot change the domain name, so if your primary use is via lighthouse, you need to stick with the lighthouse's domain (for proper federation). This is because we need to keep compatible with the other ActivityPub implementations and the domain name needs to stay static.

There are some workarounds like you can have more lighthouses and they can have the same domain (we call it suffix).

True decentralisation via total domain name swapping could be feasible but it would only work between littleFedi instances, as Mastodon and other ActivityPub implementations wouldn't support it.

Anyway, we're still trying to find a reliable workaround for this. My dream would be total decentralisation and total migration from one relay to another, like Delta Chat.

We already tested something similar and it worked, but broke federation with other AP implementations.