Well here’s a weird first legit post. Can someone please explain (actual serious question) how/why there are two fake me’s on this website already? These (below) are both imposter sites. Weird. Is there something I can do about this?

Also: hi!

@EdSolomon Mastodon as a service is a collection of servers that can share messages with each other, rather than just a single server. That's why we have "user@server", much like an email address. The fake Eds have been created on different Mastodon servers. I haven't seen anything about whether Mastodon as an application can/will support some way of verifying the authenticity of a user, but I haven't really gone looking into it.