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?
Reddit is my new home for posting my photos. I get much better engagement, feedback from all of you kind folks, and the measure of views vs upvotes and upvotes vs downvotes is a more interesting measure of performance. I made a video of the comparison with instagram on my YouTube channel 2 weeks ago, if you are interested https://youtu.be/ouW0m6QTzhM