@RedTechEngineer @fba @romin Yeah, for like half a day. They were gonna do whitelist federation, only with admins of Masto instances with high user counts. They were gonna pay them for the overhead of federating, and offer extra to run in-timeline ads, but you had to also adopt their moderation rules. They abruptly stopped federating because of unspecified bugs and "it's not ready"; allegedly, despite trying to force IG users onto it, they had very poor adoption.

When it happened, everyone said "Greatest threat to this feddy verse" and I said "Not enough information, probably a half-assed swing at Twitter" and it was a half-assed swing at Twitter. They don't appear to have killed it completely, but I don't think it's going to go anywhere.