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.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    Who is they? From the way you wrote it the only “they” would be the “alt right developers” from the headline.