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@BeAware@social.beaware.live #AuthorizedFetch is definitely a proprietary extension to #ActivityPub by #Mastodon. First added in 2019: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/11269

The main reason other AP implementations have added it (or in the case of #Misskey, made signing objects enabled by default which was a reluctant decision) as well despite Authorized Fetch / #SecureMode not being documented in the spec is that plenty of big #MastoAdmins have enabled it for their instances thinking it will prevent harassment from instances they've blocked (despite the fact that AF is purely #securitytheater), forcing the rest of the #fediverse to adopt it to remain compatible. Even at the cost of performance (no more caching).

This is plain ol' #EmbraceExtendExtinguish or #EEE for short against AP and the fedi by the Mastodon monopoly, and nobody wants to talk about it because it undermines the narrative a lot of Mastodon admins are putting out to justify their fediblocking of #Threads. Would've been fine if they focused on the (real) harms #Facebook did to Burma for example, that's a totally fine reason to block FB. But screaming EEE just makes me roll my eyes on their #hypocrisy. :seija_coffee:

@marta@corteximplant.com

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