[trompetenaccoun]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Twitter although I use it in light of a lack of good alternatives and because some interesting people are still on there. Social media matters, this is where opinions are made these days, where people get their news but also where they get indoctrinated and misinformed.

Different folks have very different expectations and wishes if you ask them about the ideal social media site. Imo it's paramount to bring back trust. This could be done not through dubious "fact-checkers" or by banning anyone certain people dislike, but simply by having the option for accounts to have all their submissions posted to a blockchain so that they can't be deleted nor altered. This could be used by media, politicians and anyone else who wants to signal reliability. Users could then go back in time and decide for themselves if the account is honest and worth engaging with, there would be cryptographic proof if they keep lying or misrepresenting things and this in turn could easily be linked to.

Ideally, not only that but users should be in control of their data. This is kind of true with Mastodon but the majority of users don't run their own server and won't ever, because that's just unrealistic. It's better to outsource this with financial incentives to ensure decentralization and user control.