• morrowind@lemmy.ml
    85·
    10 months ago

    wtf is instagram group chat. Is that the same as facebook messenger? I hate that app

    • MagneticFusion@lemm.eeOP
      611·
      10 months ago

      It is not it is the direct messaging system built within Instagram itself. It is extremely popular among Gen Z because they get to spam each other with thousands of Instagram reels and shitty memes

        • MagneticFusion@lemm.eeOP
          103·
          10 months ago

          Nice to see a fellow zoomer that does not have any social media. I was the biggest social media addict for years and refuse to ever go back. Fuck those algorithm driven psychologically manipulative social media services that also spy on everything you do.

          • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
            5·
            10 months ago

            I was the biggest social media addict

            I was, a long time ago. Back when you actually used it to follow your friends and see what they were up to. Meta fixed that right up for me when they enshittified it with rampant ads, “Reels” and “suggestions”, not to mention cloning literally every other social media feature, to the point that I can’t even find my actual friends anymore.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 months ago

        I have several people that I have blocked because they continuously send me Reels, despite me never replying to a single message and asking them to stop sending them.

      • 10EXP@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’m fairly certain they combined Instagram DMs and FB Messenger into one thing a couple of years ago. Instagram DM is now just FB Messenger but in the Instagram app, and its chats can be viewed and interacted with fully from Messenger.