How to Leave Instagram (a-side.social)

Instagram quietly removed E2E end encryption from DMs last week. Wrote this for people who've been looking for a reason to leave.

how does this differ from snapchat?

This isn't just an article about how to leave Instagram, it's also an ad for an alternative social media network.

The alternative to social media is not more social media. We could all do with less of it.

AI slop, it's obvious from the text, but just for the confirmation from Pangram (they have an extremely low false positive rate):

https://www.pangram.com/history/6532dd71-bf24-4fc1-aadd-b97f...

Too many steps. Honestly just delete your account, the app and forget about it. After a few days the people who matter will text you or find a way to reach you and that's it.

There have been an alternative out for a while called Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/)

Tried it for a while but wasn't enough cats.

The easiest way to become a non-smoker is to never have started in the first place, it definitely is not switching brand!

Just stop using it. That's all you need to do.