As an amateur photographer I used instagram to share my photos and connect with other photographers trough hashtags it was an effective way to share my work with others, noticed that hashtags are not working anymore, I used to use different hashtags to get likes or views and get in touch with other photographers and also people that are not into photography but like and share my stuff, can’t see the purpose of instagram if I can’t do this anymore is seems that Meta is slowly killing instagram, is there any place to share photos and and build a network of people who appreciate photography besides instagram?
I started adding YouTube and moved to posting images to the blog on my website and directing people there instead of direct sharing to socials. Short term growth in terms of “followers” will naturally be affected but it does insure me a bit from the death of a platform