[frizlab]

I don’t know in the rest of the world, but in France it does not. It is possible to signup using a phone number. I did not signup because email is not supported.

[progval]

The EU considers Instagram a "Core Platform Service" (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...), which comes with a bunch of restrictions. Article 5 paragraph 2 of the DMA comes awfully close to what amadeuswoo is describing:

> 2. The gatekeeper shall not do any of the following: [...]

> (c) cross-use personal data from the relevant core platform service in other services provided separately by the gatekeeper, including other core platform services, and vice versa; and

> (d) sign in end users to other services of the gatekeeper in order to combine personal data,

so Meta may have decided it's not worth fighting it and removed the requirement for Instagram accounts for people connecting from the EU.