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
    14·
    11 months ago

    For that, we should start bringing our own private keys to the server, instead of trusting the server to control everything.

    And if we start doing that, pretty soon we will end up asking ourselves why do we need the server in the first place, and we will evolve to something like what nostr is doing.

    I’m all for it.

    • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      108·
      11 months ago

      …evolve to something like what nostr is doing.

      Giving places for cryptobros to wank without being pointed at and laughed at by their betters?

      • rglullisAEnglish
        121·
        11 months ago

        No. You are thinking of Discord.

          • rglullisAEnglish
            62·
            11 months ago

            My friend, you suck at trolling. Can you just let it go?

            • ttmrichter@lemmy.world
              46·
              11 months ago

              When I see nostr users that number more than, say, six who aren’t also cryptobros, I’ll drop the nostr disrespect. Until then … 🤷‍♂️

              • rglullisAEnglish
                81·
                11 months ago

                You are doing nothing but a strawman. Lemmy is developed by shit-for-brains tankies, yet there is no denying that their work has brought progress to the distributed web.

                Same thing for nostr. Whether you like it or not, nostr “cryptobros” have shown a bunch of things that need improvement on the Fediverse and they are backing their words with actions and working code. You on the other hand have nothing but smug, pretentious bullshit to throw around.

                • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  35·
                  11 months ago

                  Again, when you can show me a cryptobro concentration lower than 99.44%, I’ll take nostr seriously. And when you can show it not turning into a Hellhole worse than Xhitter and Farcebook combined because of the very philosophy underpinning it, then I’ll think it’s actually worth looking at. (Hint: this is not possible.)

                  Until then I’ll call it what it is: a place for cryptobros to wank to their faux-libertarian fantasies.