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2024-06-14 20:43:26

Matt Blaze on Nostr: Periodic reminder that the Mastodon "Private Mention" mechanism is a dumpster fire of ...

Periodic reminder that the Mastodon "Private Mention" mechanism is a dumpster fire of dangerously insecure and counterintuitive design. Among other things, it copies your message to anyone *mentioned in the body*, not merely listed at the start, as you might expect.

You also can't fully turn it off (there's just a setting that merely silently ignores all incoming messages, with no failure indication to the sender).
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