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?
It’s not so much the hashtags themselves, but with the removal of “Recent posts” in favor of “Recent top posts”, they might as well be dead.
OP, I’ve gone back to Flickr. I’m not generating enough leads from there to justify Pro yet, but we’ll see.