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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@jherazob @lars Generally Fediverse users don't want their posts globally searchable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@me @jherazob maybe wrong to generalize, but everyone who tried so far (including many indie makers) were met with harsh pushback

[–] BuoyantCitrus 2 points 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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