[bskap]

The title says clone. The article says client. Those are very different things.

[nkingsy]

Seems like it's clearly a client, but Meta calls it a "clone site":

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/how-meta-safeguards-people...

[mccorrinall]

Looks to me like a patched client a la vanced: https://www.theogapp.com/

[elcomet]

It is a clone of the client, so both.

[pb7]

Instagram is a platform. It’s not a clone of that just like Tweetbot is not a clone of Twitter.

[elcomet]

Yes, a client is not necessarily a clone. But this one is, that's the point