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Instagram is absolute garbage compared to how it used to be. It's still massive. Once people are hooked, it's hard to wean them off. People were livid at reddit, but only a fraction of those who spoke up are here
The average user doesn't even know anything happened.
API? That's like being gay or trans right?
Instagram is not actually worse than before, sure, the content there is worse, but people spend more time on it, and as such it is doing its job as a social media platform well
I hate it that being successful and being a piece of shit are not mutually exclusive
Enshitification is a milestone in the life of a product now.
What's changed about Instagram? I'm not familiar enough to know, but I don't feel like I've heard anything all that controversial about it outside of Meta's general "pay to remove ads" thing. I certainly haven't heard anything about systemic enshittification like I have with Twitter, Reddit and TikTok; have I missed anything?
If only you were commenting on an article that discusses what happened to Instagram.