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by Waterluvian 1262 days ago
I dunno. It’s kinda crummy in some ways. Maybe because I’m not a streets ahead kid with friends to teach me all the ways of the Instagram? Off the top of my head:

- you’re supposed to know that various edge swipes get you things

- I have two feeds apparently? There’s the home page and the middle bottom button

- you can’t do most things to an existing video, you must record it live, in Instagram, for most of the effects (eg. my kids did a hilarious Christmas morning dance and I realized it would be a good Boomerang)

- I’ve had multiple comedians DM me and then say “sorry I meant to reply to the comment!”

- beware that adding comments to those videos at the top are actually DMs

- almost every video cuts off 1 second early

- almost every video has been cropped to fit the aesthetics of my tall screen so I can’t even read the

1 comments

All of your complaints are about the Reels offering, which isn't what Pixelfed cloned.