It has been possible for a long time, if you use the Instagram application, that you see fewer and fewer photos of your friends and more and more short videos or Lives. Soon they will be imposed for files of less than 15 minutes. A change announced by the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, which confirms the slow transformation of the social network in a direct competitor of the Chinese platform TikTok.
But for many users, this change is not possible. Over a million people liked (“liked”) a post that asked to go back to the previous version.
“The goal was to share photos”
One petition, launched on the Change.org platform, has even been signed more than 110,000 times. “Let’s go back to the origins of Instagram and remember that the goal was to share photos,” you can read. “And we didn’t have videos in the app until the developers got scared of Vine.”
The signatories demand in particular the return of the chronological display of the posts of the followed accounts, and the end of an intensive suggestion of content by the application’s algorithm. “We just want to see what our friends post!”
And while Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that his platforms will be moving away from their initial social media features to seize the keys to TikTok’s success, Tati Bruening (who started the petition) addresses: “We have TikTok for a reason…! There is nothing innovative about using your content!”
Source: BFM TV
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