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I got to use Instagram on my
fiancée's phone for the first time and honestly I'm impressed that so many people use... that.

lisa c

@Gargron it was really great when it first started, a real community. As expected, when Facebook bought it it started going downhill and now it's just terrible.

@lmc @Gargron

I had been using Instagram between like 2012 and 2022, didn't really see any changes in the community

probably because I mostly followed friends and activist group accounts :shrug:

there are some minor things that are irritating like the only way to make a clickable link is putting it in your bio and it may contain only one link at a time. if you find an old post with a link you'll have to type in manually at best (link shorteners are a thing, yeah, but I didn't see many people shortening their non-clickable links) or they might have written just "link in bio" and there's no link after all this time ofc

one activist group from my country used Link Tree for it, just putting the linktree link in the bio and writing "proceed to our link tree to find this article and many more" and I wish Instagram people did it more frequently

@kaedechan @Gargron the inability to have a chronological timeline, forcing celebrities into your feed, the absolute nightmare of reels, and advertisements have destroyed it IMO. I started using it just after launch in 2010 and it started going downhill not long after Facebook bought it in 2012.

@lmc @Gargron
hmm, I've had chronological timeline for a very long time, 2018 maybe. it was a loss :anya_cry:
reels were avoidable, weren't they?
I've quit a long time ago for the Fedi, so maybe something changed after this