That's an interesting question! For $2500, I would be happy to curate a post for my 17,000 Instagram followers featuring your question in the text of a post of myself near a slightly off-trail vista at a remote yet recognizable exotic location.

So you're saying it's a bunch of people trying to earn money endorsing merchandise and places?

More ads, more "influencers" doing it professionally, more people sharing text-based images and motivational quotes and memes, older crowd base of users, timeline now filtered by algorithm and not sequentially.

> timeline now filtered by algorithm and not sequentially

Yep. It annoyed me to no end to learn that I had missed a bunch of images posted by a friend because they were never surfaced to me. It turns out my rampant liking (it's super easy with the double-tapping) of someone who burst-post(s) suddenly made me seem like I was a "fan" of theirs. In reality, I just double-tap everything.

The quality of suggested content is dire, more people using it and also it's more snapchat-esque. Also, messaging service too