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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.

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[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

One more reason to argue that we should drop the idea of "aligned" servers and that we are moving to a future where it is better to charge (small) amounts from everyone instead of depending on (large) donations from a few.

[-] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 9 months ago

Ideally, a distributed fediverse wouldn't need much in terms of donations because it's a bunch of small instances instead of a few huge ones.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not the point. The point that instances that are open for everyone will be open for bad actors as well.

If the mere act of signing up to an instance requires a small payment, you are automatically preventing the absolute majority of spammers, "spray and pray" scammers and channer trolls.

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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