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> you can seamlessly transfer your photos, captions, and even hashtags

that’s rich, given that nobody has posted photos, captions and hashtags to their feed in 2 years

Its all in the ephemeral stories now, or the reels

Too late

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> given that nobody has posted photos, captions and hashtags to their feed in 2 years

Well, let me throw my anecdata hat into this ring and point out that it is not "nobody" because I have a constantly refreshing feed of people posting just those things every day.

He may be exagerating, but it is also my experience. The only "posts" i see are from entities that have something to sell. The "regular" users just do stories now (probably because of the disappearing nature of them). 2 anecdata, i guess.

Yeah it was hyperbole based on that observation, I’m glad someone that can relate chimed in

I regularly post photos from my hikes to Instagram. I've never used the story feature. But I've been accused of being a nobody before.

I might consider importing them to Pixelfed, but only a few friends are in the fediverse now, and most aren't.

Photos are alive and well on IG, not sure if you are thinking of a different app.

Depends on the generation, but it's "not cool" to post photos like we used to do it every week or so in my generation (younger millennials / older gen-z). I've seen some people doing once every month, quarter, or life altering events to give a big "fan out" news to their friends, but that's it.

It’s what i’m seeing as well. In my circle, IG is used to share memes and very rarely personal news (except for the oversharers).

good thing pixelfed supports stories

They import old stories too? Import the highlight reel? Crosspost the current story?

They could have included that in their blog post

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