it feels like the release of Habbo Origins, WoW Classic, Runescape Classic and so on... basically everything social you could make with Orkut you can with Instagram and this one has novel stuff like the stories/reels

no adult has time to hug and kiss via virtual characters like we did when we were teens and we were experiencing for the first time the "internet/social-media" thing - with that typed, an ad-less social-network if gets popular is certainly better than the shit show of Instagram/Tiktok had created but people using social-media to connect to their friends aren't obligated to follow influencers, so maybe it's irrelevant? my deleted Instagram account which by joining the game quite late (2-3 years ago), rendered updates of all my school friends and i didn't saw any ad. after making it clear i wasn't interested in seeing ads. in-between my friends stories