Anyone have a theory on why facebook is basically awful as an artist and insta remains good? Like, on instagram I have 10% as many followers, but posts get 10 to 100x the engagement? Yet, both are run by the same villain. What gives?
@ZachWeinersmith Because they are still largely run as independent services (that may share some advertising, storage, and identity management back-end components). But remember that #Instagram was later acquired by #Facebook after its success. They bought it, but it doesn't make sense to rip out what made it uniquely successful and replace it with just the internals of Facebook - because then it would just be another direct Facebook competitor and have zero value to Meta.