Comment on How has Instagram largely avoided being associated with Facebook/Meta?
pokemaster787@ani.social 10 months ago
I feel like it’s 100% a “they don’t care,” the vast majority of social media users couldn’t give less of a shit who runs the service, just what the service does for them.
The average person didn’t quit Facebook because it was a gross invasion of privacy and FB was caught doing plenty of suspect shit - Facebook declined because it wasn’t “cool” anymore and that’s it. People on Lemmy are more likely to care about who’s behind the service, but the average user certainly isn’t going to care much or at all.
I second this opinion as well, FB back in the day was for youths, then… My parents were on it. And the entire neighbourhood and their dog, too. I have a limit on how much crap I can see in my feed. Slowly but surely I left it.
Instagram filters out anyone who doesn’t care for visual content. And it didn’t start as part of FB.
just what the service does for them.
By that token, that’s the other side of the question, what does Instagram do for those still using it? I’ve seen a few replies that give some interesting insights on this, but Instagram’s never struck me as being as heavily integrated as WhatsApp given its focus, so I’d guess maybe a mix of memes and, admiration, to put it nicely?
Haha, all I know is the admins of my instances are most likely no Steve. Admins are as pseudonymous as I am, although we probably have similar hope of prospering in communities that are better than corporate-controlled ones.
pgetsos@kbin.social 10 months ago
Facebook declined because they fucked up too much with the UI/UX and with how things are shown on the feed. People hated watching only useless posts by users and groups they don't even follow and finding their friend's posts days later when the algorithm decided to show them
Instagram has become more shit in that regard too. But reels really saved it