When signing up for mastohost with an existing domain I own (whatever.com) the signup process forced me to use a subdomain (something.whatever.com). I don’t currently have a website on that root domain, but I would like to one day. Do I really have to have a long three part domain? Is there a way around it or is this a limitation of mastodon/mastohost?
Longer domains are less human readable. I don’t want to move the instance, I’d like it to always be at whatever.com
My email is emailhandle@whatever.com, I’d like my mastodon to be mastodonhandle@whatever.com
What I’m hearing is, this is possible but it’s more of an alias being setup on the whatever.com webserver but under the surface it’s always something.whatever.com?