I was thinking about an zero cost and easy way to prove primacy creating a document. While there's no serious security here, at all, thanks to federation a post gets quickly propagated publicly so it would be very hard to hack all the host servers later. Like this, but etiquette requires only occasional use, this isn't a blockchain. Hashtag #dibs
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@lmk depending upon the server, toots may have limited lifetimes.
@SETIEric Yes, I was trying to keep it dirt simple to introduce the concept. Obviously this works for centralized social sites but didn't mention because here we are on ActivityPub. Hard to know what retention policies are configured to but I believe I read that local posts are kept a long time. Thanks for commenting back.