Mastodon is great if you want to have meaningful discussions. But if you hope that someone will read your paper or statement and quote it in the news, other platforms are (still) better. For wider adoption, Mastodon also needs to serve as a tool for self-promotion.
This is due to something I call #KoboldLetters. By cleverly (mis)using CSS, attackers can display completely different emails to different recipients.
The problems with HTML and CSS in emails have been known for a long time, but the security implications have usually been underestimated or actively downplayed. That's why I wrote an article explaining how HTML emails can be used to deceive recipients into becoming part of an sophisticated #phishing attack.
@taatm@cadenza@mekkaokereke I still can't wrap my head around at-will employment. If it's more difficult to terminate a gym membership than an employee, there is something fundamentally wrong.