fiatjaf on Nostr: The level of "privacy" provided by these Mastodon things is so ridiculous it's ...
The level of "privacy" provided by these Mastodon things is so ridiculous it's absurd. And yet apparently it works and people like it and use it?
I mean, that seems to be case from what I can infer from horribly-concerned terrible-writer person here: it's a thing they trust to work, everybody trusts to work, and works most of the time. And they get very angry when it doesn't work -- even though it should be obvious to anyone there is basically nothing preventing it from stopping working completely anytime. It's all make-believe magic-wand technology.
When following someone on a different server on the Fediverse, the remote server decides whether you are allowed to do so. This enables features like private accounts. Due to an implementation mistake, Pixelfed ignores this and allows anyone to follow even private accounts on other servers. When a legitimate user from a Pixelfed instance follows you on your locked fediverse account, anyone on that Pixelfed instance can read your private posts. You don’t need to be a Pixelfed user to be affected.
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