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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • No need if it was JWT token. After you use your password to log in, the server send your browser/app a JWT token. It uses this token whenever it requests anything from the server, to show that your logged in for this session, and the server can look at the token and tell who it gave the token to, show it knows you’re logged in.

    All that is to say, logging out will mark any leaked token as no longer valid, and when you log back in you’ll have a new, non-hacked login token.











  • As much as I hate Meta and hate Twitter, more competition between them is a win imo. It also helps break the mindset of people that there aren’t any alternatives to twitter, which makes them more likely to try things like Mastodon.

    If I use it it’ll be from a federated fediverse instance after Threads connect to it. I’m not running there, but I genuinely think it’s better that it exists.


  • Might depend on who you talk to. Everyone I spoke to about it was under the same understanding that it’s integrated deeply with your Instagram account.

    I spun up my old burner Instagram account to check the platform out. They tell you that you can only change things like your name from Instagram, the app let’s you import all other profile info from Instagram, and when you login for the first time it shows you the thread profiles of everyone you follow on Instagram and gives you a button to add them all.

    It’s not just an Auth method, it’s the same account with the ability to change a few things between apps. Plenty of reasons to hate Threads, but this ain’t it.