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TechCrunch (techcrunch@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 07:44:22 JST TechCrunch

Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks https://tcrn.ch/48qdv20
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  Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch
  
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  Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
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  Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:43:53 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
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  @TechCrunch not to diminish the fact Discord has a huge stain on their face here, but the article keeps talking about Mastodon while the whole thing started on Misskey and exposed how both were less prepared than Pleroma. :blobcatgooglytrash:
  
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  Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:54:21 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
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  @HornyHive @TechCrunch ... let's just disagree on that one.
  
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  HornyHive (hornyhive@kinky.business)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 17:54:22 JST HornyHive
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  @Polychrome @TechCrunch which is hilarious because Pleroma was built as a harassment tool first and foremost and allows you to ignore blocks and justifies it with "well it's technically possible in the spec so it's not our fault and not immoral" ~ Grimm
  
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 09:05:54 JST SuperDicq
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  @TechCrunch@mstdn.social Why does Mastodon get the headline?
  
  Misskey instances took the largest hit of this attack.
  
  RE: https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/92fuwugb63
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    I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact the federated universe or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functional federated network made useful many other instances, such as Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma and Peertube compromising a full federated social network as defined by the ActivityPub protocol. Many computer users run a modified version of a Fediverse instance every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the type of Fediverse instance which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many its users are not aware that it is basically part the Fediverse, developed by many other projects. There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Mastodon is only a single type of Fediverse instance: a program in the network that operates as a single node that interoperates with all the other types of nodes that you interact with. Mastodon is an essential part of the Fediverse, but useless by itself; it can only be functional in the context of a fully federated universe. Mastodon is normally used in combination with many other instances: the whole system is basically the federated universe with Mastodon added, or the Fediverse. All the so-called "Mastodon" distributions are really distributions of platforms that interoperate with the ActivityPub protocol.

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