Social Media and its influence

Mastodon: Spamwelle zeigt Schwächen auf und weckt Sorge vor schlimmerer Methode
Seit Tagen klagen einige User auf Mastodon über eine Spamwelle. Der liegen automatisierte Angriffe auf unzureichend geschützte Teile des Fediverse zugrunde.

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Debatte auf Mastodon und GitHub: Wie genau Bluesky und das Fediverse verbinden?
Schon bald könnte es eine Verbindung zwischen zwei der wichtigsten Twitter-Alternativen geben. Das begrüßen vor allem auf Mastodon nicht alle.

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The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account.

"Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account," the maintainers said in a terse advisory.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23832, has a severity rating of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher arcanicanis has been credited with discovering and reporting it.

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With Smart Lists and a For You feed, Mammoth is trying to help you find all the good stuff in the fediverse.

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Twitter users are turning to the long-established federated community system known as Mastodon as the Musk era brings chaos to the 'bird site' social network. But how can you best secure a Mastodon account?

As even more employees leave Twitter following Elon Musk's 48 hours to quit ultimatum, and previously banned accounts return, the social network could be facing it's most perilous weeks since going into private ownership. For many Twitter users, the escape route to another network is coming via Mastodon. The Twitter infosec community is already establishing a healthy Mastodon presence, but many non-infosec users are asking how secure the federated community network is.

Is Mastodon a secure social network?

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How to Join Mastodon, the Ad-Free Social Network Billionaires Can't Buy
A short primer how to join the great #TwitterMigration and what to expect from the servers you join.

Six months ago, after the news broke that changes were coming to Twitter’s policies against disinformation and hate speech, I decided to give Mastodon a try. Unfortunately, I didn’t stick with the app long enough to develop a habit of using it. After returning to it once again this week, that’s something I’ve come to regret. In the few days since (mostly) ditching Twitter, I’ve gained a new respect for the platform, which is decidedly less toxic and is far more conversational and troll-free. I’m hoping this very brief guide will serve new users as well as those hearing about it for the first time.

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Twitter is going through some turmoil at the moment...to say the least. Ever since the new "Chief Twit" took over, many advertisers and popular users have fled from the app, seeking greener pastures. With the competition at its weakest, many Twitter alternatives have stepped up to take the popular app's place. Apps like Cohost, B-Heard, and CounterSocial are offering new, safer spaces for users afraid of what "free speech" looks like on Twitter, however, the app gaining the most buzz as of late is Mastodon.

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Is Elon Musk's Twitter buyout a red flag too far? Here's how to close your Twitter account, delete your Tweets, and get started with rival microblogging service Mastodon.

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Twitter’s been combatting harassment for years. The latest effort: quelling its horde of anonymous, hostile egg accounts. But for many users, Twitter’s abuse problem has long since undermined its value as a platform for creative communication. That’s what makes Mastodon—a free, open-source, and increasingly popular six-month-old Twitter alternative—so intriguing.

Mastodon has created a diverse yet welcoming online environment by doing exactly what Twitter won’t: letting its community make the rules. The platform consists of various user-created networks, called instances, each of which determines its own laws. One instance could ban sexist jokes and Nazi logos, while another might practice radically free speech. (In this way, Mastodon is not unlike a network of discretely moderated message boards crossed with a Tweetdeck-like interface.) Users choose for themselves which instance they want to join and select from a host of privacy and anti-harassment settings.

Oh, and the character limit is 500, not 140. In essence, Mastodon is an experiment in whether individually moderated communities can make a social network like Twitter more civil.

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New social media site Mastodon potential cyber-security tar pit | #Awareness 

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People on Bluesky and Mastodon are fighting over how to bridge the two decentralized social networks, and whether there should even be a bridge at all. Behind the snarky GitHub comments, these coding conflicts aren’t frivolous — in fact, they could shape the future of the internet.

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Mastodon, le réseau social en open source, a été victime d'une vulnérabilité majeure permettant à des acteurs malveillants de contrôler n'importe quel compte. Si la plateforme a déployé un correctif, il n'est pas certain que tous les serveurs l'aient appliqué pour le moment.

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Gar nicht so dezentral: Hälfte der Accounts im Fediverse bei Hetzner gehostet!!!

Das Fediverse gilt als offene und dezentrale Alternative zu Twitter, Facebook & Co. Ob das technisch gelingt, hat ein Entwickler einfach mal geprüft.

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Mastodon, which proudly proclaims it is “not for sale” and has around 4.5 million user accounts, is pretty similar to Twitter, once users get past the complicated sign-up process. The main difference is that it’s not one cohesive platform, but actually a collection of different, independently-run and self-funded servers. Users on different servers can still communicate with each other, but anybody can set up their own server, and set their own rules for discussion. Mastodon is a crowdfunded nonprofit, which funds the full-time work of Rochko—its sole employee—and several popular servers.

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Tröten bald alle?
Mastodon gilt manchen als das neue Twitter: nicht kommerziell, ohne Algorithmus und alle so konstruktiv. Doch es könnte auch zu nett werden.

Tröten statt Zwitschern: Bei Mastodon darf man mindestens 500 Zeichen auf einmal posten.
Twitter ist vielleicht nicht der schönste Ort des Internets, aber einer der praktischsten: Man kann sich dort vernetzen. Es ist ein Ort für Diskussion und Austausch: Virologie, Cybersecurity, Wirtschaftspolitik. Es gibt viele Fachbereiche, deren aktuelle Debatten man einigermaßen gut verfolgen kann, indem man sich in die richtigen Twitter-Bubbles reinwühlt. 

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Mastodon, a social media platform that's been around for about six years, has emerged as a potential and popular choice. The very day of Musk's takeover, Mastodon gained 70,000 new users. As of yesterday, it's grown to host 655,000 active users.

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Tout savoir sur Mastodon, le réseau social qui monte face à Twitter
Alors que Twitter traverse une période délicate, certains utilisateurs se tournent vers les réseaux sociaux décentralisés. Mastodon est la nouvelle tendance du moment.

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FAQ: Wie funktioniert die dezentrale Twitter-Alternative Mastodon?
Nachdem Elon Musk Twitter übernommen hat, wechseln viele Leute zu Mastodon. Wie funktioniert die dezentrale Plattform? Was ist das Fediverse? Wir erklären es!

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Perhaps it's the advertising. Perhaps it's the politics. Perhaps it's the brutal harassment and paper-thin protections for users. Perhaps it's the Nazis. Whatever your personal reason, you've come to the conclusion that it's finally time to quit Twitter.

Great. Welcome to Mastodon.

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New social media site Mastodon potential cyber-security tar pit | #Awareness 

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A new social media network named Mastodon popped up a few months ago and is designed to deliver a decentralised, open-source experience, but its this unique structure that may make its members vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Malwarebyte's researcher Zammis Clark blogged that the decentralised nature of the site's construction, which he said helps eliminate ads, a primary selling point for users, also leaves the social network open to hackers. The site is very different from Facebook, Twitter and other networks.
Instead of being hosted by a corporate entity on its server system Mastodon members can set up their own server if they wish, called in “instance” by the Mastodon community, and then have people join Mastodon through that server. But here is where the problem arises.

Each person's “instance” receives a special domain name, for example mastodon.instance1, and anyone registering on that instance would receive a username like johnsmith.mastodon.instance1.

Where things go awry, Clark said, is the usernames can be replicated across all the "instances", so on mastodon.instance2 there could be a johnsmith.mastodon.instance2. This creates a situation where there are no verified accounts.

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