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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    He thought he was funny, he repeated what the above poster said to repeat.