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In the case of Gab "many eyes make all bugs shallow", but those eyes in this case had malevolent intent so the value of those extra eyes is dubious for a platfo

• Jach 6y ago
  It would be wild if there was some coordination of an intentional vulnerability in Mastodon or one of its dependencies. I don't think it happened here but I can easily imagine the future of open source moving in that direction, i.e. trying to damage entities whom project maintainers don't like who use their liberally licensed software (which has no warranty). Already Gab exposed that federation is just another rake to step on and doesn't necessarily save you -- their wiki page has a section that sums up the immediate reaction after their switch: "Mastodon stated that most Mastodon instances had blocked Gab's domains, preventing interactions between these instances and Gab,[47] and that Tusky and Toot!, two popular Mastodon mobile apps, had already blacklisted Gab's domains and banned Gab users from using their app"