The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again - Rolling Stone article (archive.ph)
It’s not solely about the fediverse, but it is mentioned.
There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
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It’s not solely about the fediverse, but it is mentioned.
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/11252604...
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.
The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you....
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/7593930...
Found via Jamie Zawinski (“JWZ”): Thread federation...
The Fediverse is currently divided over whether or not to block Threads. Here are some of the things people are worried about, some opportunities that might come from it, and what we need to do to prepare.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9799372...
This feature is particularly important as threads starts to federate. Without authorized fetch, there is the possibility of content from folks who are defederated from threads making their way over through intermediary followers.
Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...
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I continue to be squeezed by both sides of the threads situation. I am operating on the premise that people who think I’m a terrible person and this is a terrible instance for allowing any interaction with threads have left and/or blocked, those remaining seem to want to either have nothing to do with threads at all and are...
Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.
There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server....