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Fediverse advice needed:

Does activating authorised fetch / secure mode on Mastodon cause connections with non-Mastodon platforms to break?

Are there other drawbacks of secure mode apart from the increased resources it uses?

#AskFedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

20 Jun 2023 at 17:15 | Open on tech.lgbt
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Gabe Kangas
@FediThing I think I saw enabling it creates issues with Kbin interop. I forget where I read that, however.
20 Jun 2023 at 17:25 | Open on social.gabekangas.com
jackson

@FediThing some more from docs: anything older than mastodon 3.0, less functional (ok who's actually running pre-3.0 mastodon)

i haven't had a case of obvious breaking (or whatever breaking means), gotosocial seems to work (i have a test instance currently running and it got my recent post).

i don't seem to be getting new posts from @lina, last post i got was vt.social/@lina/11055192591757 which was probably during the time i had authorized fetch disabled.

while authorized fetch is disabled, there is a case where posts were federated to instances i have defederated from: micro.jacksonchen666.com/@jack

@FediThing some more from docs: anything older than mastodon 3.0, less functional (ok who's actually running pre-3.0 mastodon)

i haven't had a case of obvious breaking (or whatever breaking means), gotosocial seems to work (i have a test instance currently running and it got my recent post).

i don't seem to be getting new posts from @lina, last post i got was vt.social/@lina/11055192591757 which was probably during the time i had authorized fetch disabled.

20 Jun 2023 at 17:32 | Open on micro.jacksonchen666.com
FediThing

@jacksonchen666 @lina

Yeah, that's why I am considering activating it. I don't feel comfortable having my posts on instances that I've blocked. The Meta/Facebook situation has made this more urgent.

(I know they could get round this by scraping and using proxy servers, but them bothering to do so would show what kind of people run them, which in itself would be interesting.)

20 Jun 2023 at 17:42 | Open on tech.lgbt
Asahi Linya (朝日りにゃ〜)

@FediThing @jacksonchen666 We have authorized fetch enabled on vt.social ourselves, maybe there was some weird interaction?

(These posts federated fine here but I don't know why you wouldn't get mine...)

20 Jun 2023 at 20:34 | Open on vt.social
Senhara

@lina@vt.social @FediThing@tech.lgbt @jacksonchen666@micro.jacksonchen666.com oh so if you have authorized fetch enabled, KitsuClub (running Calckey 14.0.0-dev51) is having no issues seeing your posts

20 Jun 2023 at 20:59 | Open on kitsunes.club
jackson

@lina no idea what's happening, explicitly putting links into search does get posts, but following users doesn't get posts... (i did get your post but that's about it)

following @LunaFoxgirlVT to see if issue is account dependent or something

20 Jun 2023 at 21:09 | Open on micro.jacksonchen666.com
kuna

@jacksonchen666 @FediThing
From what I understand GoToSocial forces signed fetches, so it is compatible with authorized fetch on Mastodon. Meanwhile Lemmy can't handle it, if this matters to you.

Sources:

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https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1468


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https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/help-improving-federation-between-lemmy-and-other-projects/2308/39

20 Jun 2023 at 21:05 | Open on social.hollow.capital
anelki

@FediThing I mean it prevents posts from being accessible to not-logged in users just trying to read a post. could be good or bad, depending on what you want

20 Jun 2023 at 20:43 | Open on tilde.zone
Wander ΘΔ :verified_paw:

@FediThing I haven't tried it out myself but my understanding is that requests that don't contain an ActivityPub signature of sorts will be blocked.

Many fediverse clients will support that, not just Mastodon but it's true that you might find some exceptions, especially if they're older.

20 Jun 2023 at 20:49 | Open on packmates.org
tusooa :Cat_girls_Emoji_004: 西风
@FediThing It won't affect federation with Pleroma. Pleroma always signs its fetch with its internal.fetch actor.
20 Jun 2023 at 22:01 | Open on kazv.moe
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