Frédéric JacobsApr 5, 2017

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?

Show threadWyatt
@fj That's a very important thing to think about. There has to be a balance between having it be a usable social network, yet viable as a P2P protocol
Apr 5, 2017 at 4:10pmWeb