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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Repeat after me: anything I write on the internet should be treated as public information. If I want to keep any conversation private, I will not post it in a public website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you, however there are issues with not just privacy but also authenticity. I should be able to post as me, even in public, and have a way to prove it. Nobody else should be posting information as me, if that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For that, we should start bringing our own private keys to the server, instead of trusting the server to control everything.

And if we start doing that, pretty soon we will end up asking ourselves why do we need the server in the first place, and we will evolve to something like what nostr is doing.

I'm all for it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...evolve to something like what nostr is doing.

Giving places for cryptobros to wank without being pointed at and laughed at by their betters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No. You are thinking of Discord.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that 99.44% of nostr is cryptobros.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My friend, you suck at trolling. Can you just let it go?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To add a bit of important nuance to this idea (particularly how this argument comes up with regards to threads). This does not apply to legal rights over your content. That is to say, of course you should treat any information you put out there as out of your control with regards to access but if somebody tries to claim legal rights over your content they are probably breaking the law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Right. Publicly available does not mean in public domain. But the issue here is not of copyright, but merely of gated access.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

anything I write on the internet should be treated as my private information. If I want to keep any conversation private, I will still post it in a public website.

EDIT: I'm so sorry that my stupid comment offended some people. Always forget how special some people can be on this website. Once again I'm sorry for my lack of better judgement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wow, why are you so triggered just because some people didn't think you were funny?