Twitter rival Spoutible alleges smear campaign amid security breach controversy (techcrunch.com)

Yea not sure who approved the PRs that got merged exposing those auth fields... Its not really a data breach like the CEO claims but simply their in house API that exposes auth fields for any and all users.

Either this was done intentionally by a employee, a huge oversight in a code review, or possibly a junior engineer's poc that got pushed to prod by mistake

"Twitter rivals" I'm aware of so far:

- Mastodon

- Bluesky

- Farcaster

- Threads

(And that's ignoring social networks which don't have the short-form format Twitter does, e.g. Lemmy, Kbin, Discuit).

And now, Spoutible.

1. Why would someone choose Spoutible over another competitor like Bluesky?

2. A lot of these smaller networks should federate.