Government will still have bots though, you will be at their mercy, and any disagreement they can retaliate in ways that aren't apparent to you that you will never be able to prove. Hell they could even use secret social scores from their all encompassing surveillance they are trying to implement right now to decide what information your search pages are allowed to show you, to affect what prices you pay online, to decide if you get that job, that loan. If the police watch you, if they charge you, how hard the courts hit you.

With peter thiels owned corporations making those social scores.

Bots will simply use a random id card from the millions of stolen ids

It would probably be the same content-wise. The bots are put there by people that wants to push an agenda. If we somehow reach a point where such a network with only live, confirmed humans exists, they'll still push their points I guess. After all, we already see prominent account posting batshit crazy thing under their real name, so that would not change much.

And, yeah. It's not really being an anarchist to think smaller, closer spaces are a good idea. Worldwide, almost universal social connection all the time, even without the constant barrage of garbage, is bound to completely overload our brain. Focusing on smaller communities, hand in these for a limited/controlled duration, things that actual matters, sounds really nice. It's more of a "technical minimalism", if we keep things digital.

Honestly, I prefer this.

I can stand behind my words.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/news-blog/lab-creates-fake-dna-evidence-2009-08-18/

Lol, why not blood samples?

Could just mail in a stool sample.

I refuse to use anything that doesn't allow authentication via bunghole print. It's just more convenient.

What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn't give them too many "good" ideas....

You're wishing a glorious doom upon us, my friend.

I designed MULTIVERSE's branding so it's easy to use for people who don't know what a PieFed is. I've shown this website to people who are complete normies when it comes to IT, and they understand how to use it. They don't need to know about federation or tankies or protocols, they just need to be antirealists, and they get it.

Which is to say, branding can be totally up to instance owners, it doesn't matter what the software brands itself as.

They have a cute logo and posts being called toots is the best thing ever. No idea what you'd want to change on Mastodon

Does it? Also there is so many frontends to choose from and so many other projects. What normal people needs to realize is that they are played and the whole "But there is so much choice" argument is stupid. Imagine going to the shop where there is one type of bread called bread (super easy to use, without crust so people without teeth can chew), one type of milk (cause with bother with people having different preferences), one type of pasta etc. The more choice the better and federated networks offer exactly that. You can walk into the store and choose product you like for whatever reason. But no matter what type of bread you choose, you can still make sandwich. And this whole "W" thing is an easy money grab. Create some media attention, grab VC/European funding and create shitty clone noone will use, then say "Well looks like US corporate offerings are better afterall. Oh look democrats are back".

I think what will happen is the big name corporate sites will collapse and the amount of online users will drop to just folks that have a use or passionate interest.

In USA, after 3 years of no use and no intent by the owner to use you can challenge a trademark

Just revoke the trademark in Europe