• blocked so many bot accounts, think i broke something. permaban without usual ‘community standards’ excuse. fuc zuc

  • Yeah, I’m sure that’s the real reason. And all the convenience for spying on users to collect data for targeted advertising is just a side effect.

  • If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
    If you make it the default, they will.

    • 4 days

      just like they forced reels on everyone by pushing it in the algorithm to later say “see! everyone wants reels now, they don’t want photos anymore!”

    • 4 days

      If you expect privacy with any meta product you are insane to begin with.

      • If people thought TikToks invasion of privacy was bad, wait until they realize how bad meta products are

    • 3 days

      It’s the default on Messenger so I’m not sure why it wasn’t made the default on Instagram.

  • You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

    • You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

  • I‘m surprised they even had that. The average Instagram user probably doesn‘t even know what that means.

    • They’d never make it default when it costs them a thousanth of a penny per message.

  • 4 days

    It’s really interesting that even with occasional usage of the app not once has this setting been mentioned or brought up for me. Why remove it?

  • Sorry guys, my fault. Zuck just thought my beautiful dick pics shouldn’t be hidden from the world any longer

    • Zuckerborg still needs to learn about humanity, so he needs every data available downloaded into his android brain.