
Instagram appears to be testing custom fonts for profile bios, as part of a new Instagram Plus subscription. Another sign that Meta may be working on extra customization features for paying users.
- Source: martijn cales

>Minnesota will host the 2028 NFL Draft, bringing one of the biggest spectacles in sports to the region and positioning the state at the center of the football world for three days.
>The National Football League announced that Minnesota will host the 2028 NFL Draft in partnership with Minnesota Sports and Events (MNSE) and the Minnesota Vikings.
via the Minnesota Vikings app.
Instants are ephemeral to viewers, but are saved in your archive for up to a year and can be reshared as a recap to Stories.
Friends can react and reply, with replies going straight to DMs
Accidentally shared an instant? Quickly take it back before friends see it by tapping the undo button. You can also delete an instant from your archive to unshare it to friends who haven’t opened it yet.
No screenshots. instants can’t be screenshot or screenrecorded. However, people can always record the screen or take a photo with another device, so be aware of that.
Also, Instagram monitors Close Friends content even if you think it's some kind of incognito mode. It is not.
Want to turn off Instants? There are two ways you can try:
Remember: Meta's Community Standards apply to Instants (both the feature and the app): They'll use technology to find and remove instants that break these rules, and people can flag instants for review.
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>The new metric excludes clicks, meaning creators and page managers may see lower numbers even if content performance hasn’t actually changed. Likes, comments, shares, and saves still count; only click-based actions are being removed from the total.
Source: Radu Oncescu
Adam Mosseri clarified the removal of end-to-end encryption on Instagram in is weekly AMA.
>I want to clarify that Instagram DMs were never encrypted.
>There is a feature call secret DMs which allowed you to encrypt DMs, but that was always [used by] a very, very small amount of people. Less than 1% of overall DMs, and now those DMs cannot be encrypted either.
>But the default experience, the vast majority of DMs, have always been unencrypted on Instagram.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, talked about the bot and inactive account purge that happened this week in his Weekly AMA.
>....basically what happened is we regularly remove accounts that are either very, very long inactive or bots, and usually doesn't happen to so many accounts at once, but this happened very quickly this week.
>I know a lot of people are nervous about this, but it's not going to affect your reach.
>The accounts that are no longer on Instagram were innovative for a very ling time or actual bots. It's not actual real followers that you have lost, and therefore, it won't actually affect how many people you reach when you post.
Maps update every 5-minutes at the DNR website: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/forestry/fire/firerating_restrictions.html