Mastodon's federation introduces UX challenges.
One that worries me a lot is about message forgery. Anyone can forge a twoot, even cross-server.
Whereas Twitter Inc might be trustworthy enough to not forge transcripts. Anyone can run a Mastodon server and might want to abuse it to influence people (see Russian troll campaigns).
Should Mastodon "home servers" cryptographically sign updates? Should there be end-to-end signatures? Anyone has thoughts on this?
@fj We are seeing social media platforms built on blockchains cropping up now. One of the more well-known examples is Steemit. Blockchains aren't only for money. You could make a blockchain where nothing is mined and no value tokens change hands. Blockchains are useful as trusted distributed transactional databases independently of that stuff.
