Gosh damnit, that was my idea! To put it another way, Twitter is/was a notary/PR firm as well as a "microblogging" service. Popular people and brands could ver

Gosh damnit, that was my idea! To put it another way, Twitter is/was a notary/PR firm as well as a "microblogging" service. Popular people and brands could verify their identity with Twitter, and users could trust it. I think, though the idea is unoriginal, that there is money in hosting Mastodon servers as well as hosting a particular mastodon service that does brand/personal identification. Perhaps even semi-automatically, such as via DNS.