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.

  • chickenEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    Not really, you’re saying if people you dislike are associated with something then you automatically write it off without understanding it. That’s self mockery.

    • ttmrichterEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Whatever you say, child. Buh-bye.