Desktop Instagram Posting Currently Being Tested, Confirms Facebook

[paulovsouza]

What research do you have to backup that Instagram is a dying platform? I work closely with the social media team at my job, who are pretty damn good at what they do, and both tiktok and IG are incredibly prominent.

I would love to know when you’re getting that it’s a dying platform.

Facebook is doing everything possible to make IG and FB relevant, copying every feature from every other platform. By making the shopping tab a priority shows they’re pivoting.

What boomers did to FB, is what people like you, and paid influencers make the experience unauthentic. That’s the big draw to TikTok, user content made by real people.

 

[slb]

They appear to be rolling this out to public users for testing as well because I have the ability to upload from my Mac through the browser. I got a tooltip telling me about the new feature earlier this week. It looks just like in those screenshots.

 

[zakarhino]

It's one of the most basic of features that every social media app should support.

Why it took them so long. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Because they want to push you to use the mobile apps for two reasons:

1) mobile apps are more habit inducing

2) it's harder to block tracking nonsense on mobile than it is on a web app.

 

[WikiWikiWikiLeaks]

It really isn't though. It's a breeding ground of many MANY vapid people that prey on the general populace. Kylie Jenner, as useless as she is, has 240+ million followers. IG isn't going anywhere. Facebook on the other hand, it's been streamrolled by boomers. I want to say both platforms suck (because they do) but the reality is that THE PUBLIC sucks even more. Social media has attracted trash and enabled every one of these expendables to think they now have a voice for their worthless 2 cents on every issue.

You are trash too, and because of it you have given us your worthless 2 cents too on this issue. Get a life...

 

[zakarhino]

You are trash too, and because of it you have given us your worthless 2 cents too on this issue. Get a life...

Kylie, I didn't know you were a MacRumors reader.

 

[oldMacGenius]

With Apple silicon Macs supporting iOS Apps, and Windows 11 supporting Android apps and sideloading; this is almost moot...

Still yet, If you must use Facebook, I suggest running any and all Desktop Facebook apps in a Bare Metal hypervisor (or at least a basic virtual machine) setup just for facebook apps with internet tunneled through to a GDPR country so that one can be mostly* for sure Facebook fails to enhance their flagship product:

Knowedge of You and your Data.

(If your hypervisor manager supports checkpoints, a good practice is to checkpoint after initial setup and rollback after each use. Don’t give them any daylight.)

*If there is possibly a more egregious “privacy attack vector” lurking in the shadows and Jupyter Notebooks at One Hacker Way to further allow Facebook to (mis)use your private data, expect it to be used in the near future.

 

[Steve121178]

That's nice. How many more years do we need to wait for iPad Instagram & Whatsapp apps?

 

[jonppa]

Technically & costwise this is peanuts for FB to develop. It is just that they don't want people accessing their services with web browser.