Never looked under the hood of Mastodon federation protocol, anyone has a link handy?
As a side thought: may be a good idea to implement a blockchained social network but with servers instead of P2P and signatures instead of PoW. ZCash like, may be call it Social Currency
I want Twitter to increase its chars limit to 500. If I could get enough people to subscribe to this demand then we could collectively start selling shortened stock options. The options will drive the stock price down: no reason to buy stocks if there are cheaper options available (which guarantee the lower price).
Such speculation requires the status of sophisticated investor but if it's a platform backed by a sophisticated investor then it may work...
How to make public company to do what we want?
Make a publicly available demand for the feature and then start selling stock options short for the near term