I doubt this has anything to do with copyright law. I'm certain it has everything to do with certain things needing memoryholing and archive.* operators' lack of compliance.
-12 karma · joined November 2, 2025
it is still impossible to speak about such things here without getting flagged, so all I'm going to say is that I and many other people still remember the events that happened between February 2020 and March 2023.
the target audience of Instagram - regular people - has no incentive to use a decentralized alternative, no matter how solid and easy to use it might be, because centralization and censorship do not bother them.
we already saw it with the twitter exodus, which, despite a period of intense hyping up by the media, had accomplished nothing. regular people, for better or worse, simply don't give a shit.