Image description: A small section of a slightly ramshackle wooden pier photographed from a nearby shoreline, from a side on perspective. The pier is backlit and almost in silhouette. Several people can be seen fishing from the pier, and birds sit on the rocks underneath it...
that this whole thing you’ve been thinking about over the last months is now out, people know about it, people talk with you about it, and it’s actually going somewhere…...
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.
Privacy and being free of (in-context) harassment aren’t the same thing.
They’re related. Often, the ability to limit your audience is about making it non trivial for harassers to access your content rather than impossible.
If the goal is privacy so that people who aren’t in the community don’t know that you’re in the community
That’s not the goal. The goal is to make a community that lets vulnerable folk communicate whilst keeping the harassment to a manageable level and making the sensitive content non trivial to access for random trolls and harassers.
It’s not about stopping dedicated individuals, because they can’t be stopped in this sort of environment for all the reasons you point out. It’s about minimising harassment from the random drive by bigots
You’re thinking about this in an all or nothing way. A community in which everyone and everything they post is open to everyone isn’t safe.
A community in which no one can find members or content unless they’re already connected to that community stagnates and dies.
A community where some content and some people are public and where some content and some people are locked down is what we need, and though it’s imperfect, things like authorised fetch brings us closer to that, and that’s the niche that future security improvements on the Fediverse need to address.
No one is looking for perfect, at least not in this space.
Fishermen's Pier, Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina - December 2023 [OC] (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Image description: A small section of a slightly ramshackle wooden pier photographed from a nearby shoreline, from a side on perspective. The pier is backlit and almost in silhouette. Several people can be seen fishing from the pier, and birds sit on the rocks underneath it...
When the realization hits...
that this whole thing you’ve been thinking about over the last months is now out, people know about it, people talk with you about it, and it’s actually going somewhere…...
Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)
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.