Didn't know about this and wow, I had missed stuff from real friends because the regular feed hid it.

Do Stories show up differently than posts? Asking as someone that has not used Instagram beyond looking at a few specific profiles.

Right, you used to be able to do that with Facebook, too (haven't been on there in forever, don't know the current state), but, right, it would reset to the usual slop after a little while.

This sort of garbage is just yet another reason why I don't want to be on these platforms. "Oh, you prefer it this way? No, fuck you, we know better as to what you want."

> my friends have long since stopped making regular posts on Instagram, it's more common to use stories.

Ugh. I don't know what my friends have been doing these days on Instagram, but the last thing I want to spend my day doing is watching short-form video clips posted by my friends. The photo stream (yes, with occasional short videos), was wonderful.