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They found 5 major flaws, threats, including the ability to take over a server, control a server, with a post.
With a post. TootRoot.
"Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking"
For 13 million users, #Mastodon NEEDS a security FOCUS.
Demand layers of protection.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/mastodon-fixes-critical-tootroot-vulnerability-allowing-node-hijacking/
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking
Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.Ars Technica
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration
“Hey, look, we’re not a monopoly. We’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol. Here, let our friend Eugen, CEO of Mastodon, explain to you how it works in very dispassionate words…”
#eu #ec #fediverse #mastodon #antitrust #DigitalServicesAct #PR #usefulIdiots
In the Blue Place, it felt like we were all competing for attention. Here, it’s more like we’re cooperating for attention.
At one level, that doesn’t make sense—everyone still has only so much attention to spend. But it *feels* better, and without The Algorithm enforcing power law, winner-take-all dynamics, the boost culture does seem to lift a lot of voices that were drowned out over there.
1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"
2. People on Fediverse start following/mingling with Threads accounts, thereby tightly integrating the network effect between the two
3. People decide that if they can get access to the Fediverse through Threads instead of Mastodon, which is for "dumb nerds", they'll go with Threads
4. "Threads will be ending support for ActivityPub on September 1st, 2026 - click here to import your Mastodon account"
5. Fediverse users leave en masse so they can keep talking to their friends on Threads
6. Blog post Eugen: "I didn't want to believe they would go this far"
"I felt like #Mastodon was the geek conversation the kitchen and they were annoyed we all piled in and interrupted them. Felt best to leave them to it, didn’t want to take over their party they were enjoying. This* feels easier to use, don’t have to think eh wot do I do each time" (by K.C.)
* bsky
"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."
Jean M. Auel
No place is perfect, adapt and enjoy with time you will establish your network.
Welcome🫶
#twitter #twitterexodus #fediverse #mastodon #life #newcomer #newhere #welcome
- Welcome to the fediverse!
- If you’ve joined mastodon.social because it was the default option in the app, please look to move to a smaller instance so mastodon.social doesn’t grow to become Twitter 2.0. (You can use https://instances.social to find a new instance or ask folks on here for suggestions.)
- Please add alternate text to your images so people who use screen readers can join in too. (https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images)
#TwitterMigration #mastodon #fediverse
Write good Alt Text to describe images
Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.accessibility.huit.harvard.edu
#Mastodon is unsearchable* by design
If you see a post with a link or list you might want to come back to later, slap a bookmark on that puppy or you will never find it again
If you want other people to be able to find your posts, you need to #Hashtag the keywords
Today's #FediTip brought to you by the letters A, C, and C and the emoji
The "left" / "liberal " users of #Twitter will fatten #Mastodon user numbers, whereas the the burning bird on the right might yet rise again like the #Phoenix out of the #Birdsite ashes as #Twitter2.0 (aka #Bluesky.)
Thus it is envisaged by #Elmo and his #PayPal, not-my-friend, @ Jack after #Twitters final demise.
Purefied by fire, only right-wing users and easily gullible #ElmoFanboys will remain on #Bluesky.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28Programmiersprache%29
Here are my 2 cents on how I got 🦣 to work for me,
I started with following who I knew from 🐦 and liked
I listed the topics I am interested in reading about, put those into # and started following people with the same interests
The more I followed, the better the experience became :apartyblobcat:
Always caption your pix, always be courteous and kind 😊
🦣 has an EDIT button :ablobcall:
Have fun! :ablobattention:
-James Baldwin
#BlackMastodon #Mastodon #JamesBaldwin
If we ever aspire to become a serious alternative to corporate platforms we can't continue with this behavior. Let me explain.
Two days ago someone created a "The_Donald" community of a well-known #Lemmy instance. Immediately there were cries for defederation, blocking, and suspicion about the admin letting racists run rampant on his instance.
Ultimately when the admin logged in they removed that community. But before they even had time to realize what was happening they were already being accused of stuff and if any instance heeded the call to block, it would have caused damage to the users who would have their subscriptions / follows severed.
Some users who've just arrived from Reddit and bring a fresh perspective are already wary of the shit show this can become.
That instance resisted massive blocks because it was large enough. But what if it was smaller? >>
#Mastodon #Kbin #Project92 #MastoAdmin
From this post by Not Just Bikes:
I’ve been on Bluesky for less than 48 hours and my feed is already way more useful than on Mastodon, despite following only a couple of people.I really don’t understand Mastodon’s aversion to discovery algorithms. Algorithms aren’t inherently evil, and I would argue that they’re necessary for social media to function.
The odds of me staying here are pretty slim when it’s almost impossible for people to find my stuff, and for me to discover new people, without doing a bunch of manual work.
I have to do a quote share because I can’t grab the original post here.
#Tusky bietet hier allerdings wirklich eine #API-Funktion einer #Mastodon-Instanz.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/domain_blocks/
Yes, they did.
Because you’re what’s for dinner.
#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism
#SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #FediverseMigration
https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/share-spread-mastodon
Hi! Please, replace the word #Mastodon by #Fediverse! We're all a big family much richer than Mastodon alone!
Here, I'm trying to help three little kittens to stay alive, after having helped another one. They didn't show up to eat this time. I'll try again later on. No photos yet.
Thank you!
🙏
#cats #kittens
You can visit fe.soapbox.pub to check out #Soapbox and try the software with your instance! It works quite well with #Mastodon and #Pleroma especially, I can't remember if it supports #Misskey at all.
Pod kierownictwem wykładowczyni prowadzę badanie kwestionariuszowe dotyczące relacji chronotypu ze zdrowiem psychicznym osób studiujących.
Będę wdzięczny za każdą odpowiedź - jeśli macie swoje ankiety również chętnie wypełnię 📝
https://forms.office.com/e/B8b9Vd5DgX
#student #studia #mastodon #badania #research #psychologia
Hi! Do you think that you could replace the word "#Mastodon" by "#Fediverse". It's just because, since I boosted your toot, you've just reached people in #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Dispora, #Pleroma, etc.
#Diversity is what makes us different and great!
I had hoped that #Mastodon would be the thing that could replace both Reddit and Twitter, but without a federated #groups model, or proper #threading, or similar tools, it's not going to work.
So where y'all going?
I don't use push notifications.
Have installed #Tusky, #Fedilab, ...
Afaik this just effects, how fast you will get notifications about... notifications... 😉 ... so e.g. someone mentioned you.
Mostly using #Mastodon (and #Mammuthus), i have to admit, but also installed a #Friendica instance once... 😉
I often use humor - sometimes dark humor - as a coping and defense mechanism. So I get strangers lecturing me or accusing me of shit (both practices I strive to avoid). Is it really that hard to think I know what I’m talking about and just engaging it in a weird way?
#MastoArt #mastodon #art #DigitalArt #fediart #illustration #artist #artistsonmastodon #webcomic #webcomics #comics #comicstrip
