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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It's mostly better than twitter, in that it actually functions reasonably well, and it's obviously considerably worse than Mastodon (especially compared to the Ivory app)

  • The biggest downside is the timeline seems to show a mixture of accounts you follow and other accounts, seemingly suggested accounts that it thinks you might want to follow. I can't see any way to only see posts from accounts you follow.
  • The timeline isn't chronological and I can't see a way to make it chronological
  • You can't edit posts
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The top 2 are in-line with the behaviour of Instagram's main timeline. So yeah, it's not surprising.
Another downside is your account is linked with your Instagram account.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their competition is with Twitter. They are not competing with Mastodon (atleast for now).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

True, this is just from my own perspective, and I use Mastodon.

[–] zahel 1 points 2 years ago

Can’t believe you pay a subscription to use a proprietary mastodon app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you saying twitter doesn’t function well? In what way? I’m not a massive twitter user but have never had a problem on the iOS app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The app has become a lot buggier in my experience, but most concerning of all is the ability to read tweets at all is being restricted: https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/