Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoSpam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilitiestechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down15cross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1141arrow-down1external-linkSpam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilitiestechcrunch.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWhen a new Mastodon instance is created guess what default setting for registration is? Open. Sensible defaults matter, because 95% of users never change settings from their default. Mastodon devs knew about this since at least 2019 and did nothing.
When a new Mastodon instance is created guess what default setting for registration is?
Open.
Sensible defaults matter, because 95% of users never change settings from their default.
Mastodon devs knew about this since at least 2019 and did nothing.