A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads.

Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.

  • @rglullisAEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    tools to thrive should also be building things for secure, private communication.

    Sure, but this should not be seen on the same class of software of “social media” or even “the web”.