• HobbitFoot
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    1 year ago

    Instagram was designed to share photos at first, with the filters added because old phone cameras sucked. Text pictures got added later as Meta adjusted Instagram to compete with Twitter and Tumblr.

    • bug@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Good point, I guess I should be specifically referring to Facebook’s Instagram, rather than the filter and photo-sharing app it was beforehand