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.

  • sugarfreeEnglish
    92·
    10 months ago

    A private forum may be useful in that case.

    • AdaEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      Why even bother with that comment?