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.” *
I'm not a Mastodon instance host, but as far as I know the host of the instance can obscure a single instance so that you can still search and follow people from that instance without seeing their posts in the federated timeline (ofc if you follow them you are still going to be able to see their posts in your timeline)
We did this with mastodon.social since we've been basically under attack by cryptospammers from that instance. We can still follow people from that instance but they don't appear in our Feed if we don't follow them