#funtobesquare — Public Fediverse posts

I don't really use #Instagram much these days. As someone working in #DigitalCommunications I feel I shouldn't shut myself off from some platforms like this but I rarely ever post on my own account.

Today I did and I noticed that the default profile grid of *square* photos has been changed to 3:4 portrait ratio pictures!!! Apparently this happened early last year.

I was an Instagram user back in the day when the app *only* allowed people to post square photos. Videos, reels, algorithmic timelines, shopping etc - none of these things existed and Instagram was a better place because of it.

I've stubbornly continued to only post square photos to Instagram and today I realised - with horror - that it is now automatically cropping
all of the previews to fit a 3:4 ratio which destroys my carefully composed photos.

I feel this is the end of our relationship Instagram. I will use you if I need to for work-related purposes, but that's it.

#FunToBeSquare