Techcrunch: Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities
Techcrunch: Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities
A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the
What a terribly confusing and unnecessary title. Just call it mastodon and elaborate on it after the title if you feel you need to.
It's a feature, not a bug.
While abuse is not what it's supposed to be for, the activity pub function is about interoperability and democraticization. It's up to individual instances to set policies and , if necessary, block instances that are problematic to them.
Abuse is easier because of that, but every public forum is vulnerable to abuse, but lacks the interoperability and choice.