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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:10:13 JST Eugen Rochko

   • Rich Felker
   • Marco Rogers
   • moggie

   @dalias @polotek @EverydayMoggie Mastodon has never exposed the identity of the reporting user to third party servers; it used to be masked by the admin user, then a special system user was created to avoid confusion, and finally the UI was updated to just show the server name when a report comes from a remote source. Non-Mastodon software may not have the same privacy protections in place though and just expose the actual reporting user.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:18:01 JST Eugen Rochko

     in reply to

     • Rich Felker
     • Marco Rogers
     • moggie

     @dalias @polotek @EverydayMoggie I’ll preface by saying the following is not designed for or helpful for single user setups. The behavior you’re seeing allows the admin to take action on a malicious reply to one of their users in cases when such a reply is seen by someone from a third party server first, theoretically making it possible to remove the reply before the actual recipient sees it.