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.

  • @ChaosADEnglish
    0•11 months ago

    You can’t make your profile entirely private like one would do on Twitter or any of Meta’s products.

    Even those are not private.