Why isn’t anyone talking about this? It looks like Meta wants to compete with Twitter with a new Instagram microblogging app which will probably be compatible with Mastodon

Key Point of the article:

*“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.” *

The Verge - This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

    • Lars Trieloff
      4•1 year ago

      @super_user_do I know. And I’m sure the article cited an internal slide, made by someone who hasn’t heard about the Mastodon community’s attitude towards search

      • @jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Out of the loop, what’s this attitude? New at the Fediverse and haven’t heard of this before

          • @BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca
            2•11 months ago

            I can sort of see that for mastodon as it’s meant to be ephemeral but is the Lemmy community also resistant to indexing?

          • @jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Why is that? I feel like i’m missing something obvious here but wouldn’t that be a positive?

            • VeloxizationEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              From my understanding, people are worried about the effect that happens on Twitter where bad actors search certain keywords to pile onto users. It avoids having to constantly block these bad actors.