@e @Weeble Again, anyone can alter that ledger. The reputation system does work but that's a _lot_ of pinging. Not every instance you federate with may contain X or Y status, and very likely only big instances may get that federation.

At the end of the day this is overkill and unneccesary. The only case where side-federation could be useful is when an instance literally does not exist anymore, which also means that a status can be altered but it honestly doesn't matter at that point because the instance is dead