In theory, if Mastodon revealed which country your Mastodon account was mostly used from, it would not be possible for someone to get paid to influence voters from another country by pretending to be from said country.
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In theory, if Mastodon revealed which country your Mastodon account was mostly used from, it would not be possible for someone to get paid to influence voters from another country by pretending to be from said country.
For instance, Putin could not pay Russians to influence a US election by posting in English from a secret office in Moscow.
Of course the price would be, Mastodon would then reveal everyone's home country.
Would you like such a feature?
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In theory, if Mastodon revealed which country your Mastodon account was mostly used from, it would not be possible for someone to get paid to influence voters from another country by pretending to be from said country.
For instance, Putin could not pay Russians to influence a US election by posting in English from a secret office in Moscow.
Of course the price would be, Mastodon would then reveal everyone's home country.
Would you like such a feature?
@randahl this wouldn't be possible in federated environment, even in "theory" -
@randahl this wouldn't be possible in federated environment, even in "theory"@randahl but if we look at what Twitter has done... that's at least was funny to look at.
