Dangers in the Latest Thing
By Securemac.com
Image by Mohamed Hassan, Pixabay
Mastodon and user security
Twitter is in turmoil, leading many longtime users to seek out other social platforms. One such alternative is Mastodon, described by website LifeStyleUG.com as:
…an open-source, self-hostable microblogging platform similar to Twitter or Tumblr. Here users make profiles, post messages, images, and videos, and follow other users. The messages usually have a 500-character limit that follows a chronological order.
Mastodon has a few things going for it in terms of security and privacy. It’s decentralized and crowdfunded, which means that there’s no giant tech company keeping track of user activity and/or trying to monetize it. In fact, Mastodon says it doesn’t collect any user data!
However, this decentralization may also prove to be an issue for security, as Ars Technica points out:
[Mastodon administrators]…may not be versed in the nuances of security. The difficulty of configuring
