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Instagram doesn’t want to be a ‘lean-back experience.’
In a January Reel, Mosseri announced a new feed within Instagram of videos their friends have liked in an effort to make sure Instagram is not just “a lean-back experience, but a participatory one, a social one.” It underscores how Instagram still sees connecting friends as a core experience on its app. Mosseri testifies he was distracted watching the video because “I’m mostly focusing on the one comment that said ‘definitely not a good idea.’”
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