No worries, ambiguous language is a pet bugbear of mine 
As you can see right back in 2017, in the comments about “branding” (a reputation laundering term I wouldn’t use nowadays) at the end of my Brief History of the fediverse piece.
Not at all, and so am I 
Again, seeking clarification. To a lay reader (ie me), this reads like it’s saying that servers running Mastodon are no longer able to display posts to anonymous web browsers. But I just checked and that’s not the case. So what exactly is the functionality that’s been lost to the open web due to this software change in Mastodon?