Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system
I don&#x27;t think the problem is federation. The problem is media where participants have nothing at stake, so that abusers can&#x27;t be made to pay the costs of their abuse. Changing this isn&#x27;t incompatible with anonymity - for example you could require anonymous participants to post bonds in a cryptocurrency.  But e-mail spam, for example, would never have been a problem if the recipient of an e-mail could push a button and destroy $1 of the sender&#x27;s money.  Getting the incentives right for a social network is undoubtedly harder, but you can&#x27;t even start until people have something to lose.