• nottheengineer@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The comments by people consist of nothing but emojis and occasionally one to five words.

      Scattered around that, you’ll also find a lot of bots spamming websites that either sell cheap stuff like LED lighting and swamp coolers with ridiculous markups (about 10x) or are straight up scams.

      Those could be filtered out easily but instagram just cares more about the traffic than their users.

      With moderators leaving en masse, reddit will move into that direction. They won’t ever get this shitty, but definitely a lot closer than they are now.

    • Rhodin@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s not impossible, just inconvenient. Instagram was made to show off pictures, so when you open someone’s Instagram, all you see is a grid of pictures by default. If you want to read the captions and comment, you have to click on a pic and then click on the 💬 to view the comments and add your own. In a world where most places only make you click “send” to comment, it’s slightly more work than most people want for an online discussion.