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.

  • heavyEnglish
    271·
    10 months ago

    I agree with you, however there are issues with not just privacy but also authenticity. I should be able to post as me, even in public, and have a way to prove it. Nobody else should be posting information as me, if that makes sense.

    • rglullisEnglish
      140·
      10 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.

      • ttmrichterEnglish
        108·
        10 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?

        • rglullisEnglish
          111·
          10 months ago

          No. You are thinking of Discord.

          • ttmrichter
            55·
            10 months ago

            I’m pretty sure that 99.44% of nostr is cryptobros.

            • rglullisEnglish
              62·
              10 months ago

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

              • ttmrichter
                46·
                10 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 … 🤷‍♂️

                • rglullisEnglish
                  71·
                  10 months ago10 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.

                  • ttmrichterEnglish
                    36·
                    10 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.

    • 0x1C3B00DA
      51·
      10 months ago

      Sure, but that’s already solved on the fediverse by using HTTP Signatures and isn’t related to Authorized Fetch.

      • heavyEnglish
        20·
        10 months ago

        I meant to say generally, for folks that might read this comment and think problems surrounding the platform and security are solved.

    • ttmrichterEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      Clear sign every post using a third-party application. Make your public keys known far and wide. Authenticity solved.

      • NatanaelEnglish
        50·
        10 months ago

        And now we’re dealing with key management instead

        • ttmrichter
          31·
          10 months ago

          You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.

        • ttmrichter
          11·
          10 months ago

          You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.