Something exciting today. It's now possible to zap on the Fediverse! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ You can zap users on Nostr! You can zap users on Mastodon/Pleroma/ActivityPub! Let the sats flow!!!

https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-zaps/

Check it out and get set up to send and receive MONEY across the Fediverse for your shitposts.

This works thanks to the Mostr Bridge + Zapple Pay, an amazing result of Apple banning zaps on Damus. Who would have thought?

Enjoy!

In theory, this Zapple Pay service would allow ActivityPub users to zap each other using the bridge: https://www.zapplepay.com/

https://github.com/benthecarman/zapple-pay-backend

I wasn't able to get it working yet: https://github.com/benthecarman/zapple-pay-backend/issues/20

But it's a really cool idea.

"Mastodon vulnerability allows attackers to take over accounts"

Snopes: Mixed

It's a serious vulnerability for sure: "allowing attackers to impersonate users and take over their accounts"

But while this part is true: "allowing attackers to impersonate users"

This part is exaggerated: "and take over their accounts"

Impersonating remote users doesn't allow you to log in as them, change their email or password, etc. It allows people to submit forged posts by them, and "trick" Mastodon servers into accepting it. Either way, interesting that this leaks into the wider web.

RT: https://noauthority.social/users/Dan_Ramos/statuses/111871157549735051

I used to think this song was about life being boring. A lack of creativity and interest. But now I think the "little boxes" should not be taken literally. It's about people, not houses. People put themselves into boxes. They follow leaders, and repeat the same tropes over and over again. Just whatever is popular. And at the end, I come full circle to the same conclusion.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Cjk0zst3Cs