There is. We just don’t use anything they make or operate.

Good luck convincing Europe to stop using WhatsApp.

I have been tip toeing into home labbing hobby, it is an expensive hobby to have but it started with pihole and it really got bigger once the boycott the US movement started. Out of respect for the people who may visit my LAN I have kept the book of faces open on my LAN. I recently got it setup so that I could have multiple vLANs and wifi APs so today I figured out how to black list all meta things on my personal vlan while keeping it open for others who are not as big in the boycott as me.

My whole country is addicted to Instagram. I got lucky I deleted it in 2018 because of some family bs

Instagram is extremely popular. At least here in my region.

Short form videos are extremely addictive. Once the algorithm knows what engages you, it is difficult to stop. And for people who used to use Facebook or who used to use the image sharing on Instagram, meta already knows what to serve them. If people only just try it once, maybe out of curiosity, maybe because someone shared a link, they will have a hard time stopping.

Normal algorithmic feeds are bad enough. But short form videos are on a whole different level.