Have locks on data is a nice idea.

But given we have dissemination/disclosure among friends only, do we need to encrypt the blocks? Given communication channels are encrypted.

Well, when sharing such a block off-group, you may skip transmitting its deps. In Social Networking that may be alright. And when off-group agent gets accepted to group, he's able to get the stuff below.

However, that does complicate piggybacking, as it'll be seen that the previously off-group agent has some block (but actually he doesn't have its deps).

Perhaps a sort of protobuf is better.

Goes against democratic principles.

A democratic way will be to raise a BAN poll.

I.e., an edge of a hypergraph is a set of vertices.

This is akin to a pub/sub topic.

Multiaddr could be used instead, to aid connectivity

Huh, such firewalls exist? I thought they can be hole-punched.

^

What stops a culprit to send off-group a message that is not his own? We can only achieve the "culprit detection" by addressing and signing every message we send to A. This is a lot of re-signing. And we won't have a convergent DAG.

Perhaps better to attach a new IP address to a message once it does change. What's the point in telling over-and-over the same IP?

^

More like an edge gives a communication path.

A->B (A follows B) - B can talk to A.

A<->B - B can talk to A, A can talk to B.

I.e., Equivocation exclusion is not required for social networking.

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Maybe annotation could put "tweet" sized things into context and thereby avoid the "argument machine."

Rashly assuming anyone will actually take time to read the context and the comment...