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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 it would be good to make the cross instance accounts more visible. the instance tends to get cut off on the timeline. maybe an icon should be added beside cross instance messages? or allow instances to set a favicon for their instance which is shown on all of the timelines?
