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https://fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/fonts-in-use-is-not-active-on-instagram
Plus a couple of the most convincing links in there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
and
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
When I stopped using Instagram it helped to remind myself that every time I felt the urge to return (even/especially as a thoughtless natural reflex), it was the feeling of a toxic corporation’s manipulative engineering working on me exactly as it was designed to.
Nick Sherman
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2026-03-06 20:46:13 UTC
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