Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
Instagram can actually be a nice place, if used as a platform to look at cool pictures and not at all as a social network. I never added any friends or family, I just follow accounts and topics I&#x27;m interested in. So my feed is almost entirely pixel art, cool architecture, and retro console mods, and it&#x27;s very pleasant.<p>Considering they&#x27;re Facebook-owned, I see surprisingly little effort to cram low-effort garbage down my throat. I&#x27;ve even bought a couple of things via ads, as they seem to be pretty aligned with my interests (as you would expect from that level of data collection).<p>The only real issue I&#x27;ve had is that a weirdly large number of people seem to tag their family photos with the #architecture hashtag.