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I was really hoping this would say “why does Facebook and Instagram provide a web interface when their crappy platforms rarely show content unless you’re using their app”.

At this point it’s purely a performance that they even offer a web interface to their platform.

Same goes for Twitter.

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Instagram is especially awful when using a web browser… but pintrest wins my award for the best black hole of all time. Information goes into pintrest and then it dies forever.

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Because only most users use the app, some still use the web for what ever reason. Gotta give your customer what they want.

Also what about those on a pc?

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Also what about those on a pc?

this could be the reason why they still provides the web interface ig.

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You need it to share URLs. You can’t know the device it will be opened on. Also, news articles sometimes embed them, which they use to hoard information about readers.

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It makes buisness sense to make Facebook and Instagram available to more platforms.

Because you can’t target them with ads as efficently if they can’t keep using your service on a pc.

Why would Zuck throw away an opertunuty to squeeze some more bucks.

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There was a time Instagram is only accessible using mobile apps.

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that’s interesting… I wonder why they revert the changes.

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AFAIR, Instagram started mobile only.

Then they made the service available in more platforms.

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Correct, and likely because some people refuse to download the apps. I know I was one of them. I say was because I now do my best to not use their services at all, and where I do need to, I use a third-party app so I can use one app for multiple messaging services.

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