How to Leave Instagram

proletarian

Instagram quietly removed E2E end encryption from DMs last week. Wrote this for people who've been looking for a reason to leave.

schlagaloo

how does this differ from snapchat?

jjulius

This isn't just an article about how to leave Instagram, it's also an ad for an alternative social media network. The alternative to social media is not more social media. We could all do with less of it.

Tiberium

AI slop, it's obvious from the text, but just for the confirmation from Pangram (they have an extremely low false positive rate): https://www.pangram.com/history/6532dd71-bf24-4fc1-aadd-b97f...

bilekas

Too many steps. Honestly just delete your account, the app and forget about it. After a few days the people who matter will text you or find a way to reach you and that's it.

TheChaplain

There have been an alternative out for a while called Pixelfed ( https://pixelfed.org/ ) Tried it for a while but wasn't enough cats.

polotics

The easiest way to become a non-smoker is to never have started in the first place, it definitely is not switching brand!

sys_64738

Just stop using it. That's all you need to do.