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> Obviously Mastodon has it's own internal tools, but those tools on mastodon.social have absolutely no effect on Fosstodon, and vise versa. Mastodon has "post
by css 6y ago
> Obviously Mastodon has it's own internal tools, but those tools on mastodon.social have absolutely no effect on Fosstodon, and vise versa.
Mastodon has "post as user" in its internal tools? Why?
- 0-O-0 6y agoAFAIK Twitter's internal tools allowed to reset emails and circumvent 2FA, not post as users.
- css 6y agoDo Mastodon's internal tools allow administrators to circumvent 2FA?
- throwanem 6y agoNot directly. You can do it with access to the instance's Postgres database, but I'd expect relatively few instance admins (as opposed to instance owners) to have that; the admin tools don't include a database console, and you can't use a credential for the admin tools to authenticate to the database.
- Deukhoofd 6y agotootctl accounts modify USERNAME --disable-2fa --reset-password Then check your mail server for outgoing mail, and use the mail sent to the user to change the password.
- robjan 6y agoIf you are the instance owner you can do whatever you want. Additionally, many instances are installed on a single host (https://masto.host https://masto.host) and almost all instances are on VPS in various managed clouds.
- knolax 6y agoThe vast majority of instances are one man shows where the admin also has root access to the server the instance is running on. Aside from that I don't think there's anything on the Mastodon webapp itself that lets you post as a user. It's mostly limited to blocking/hiding instances and users.