I thinks it’s good practice to remind friends that you cannot view this or that link everytime they send one. I constantly remind my friends that insta doesn’t work for me (or the other sites). A few of them did start to realize how much of their daily habits takes place on these privately owned platforms.

I also like to remind some friends who think they partake in some sort of activism by liking or subscribing to certain instagram posts or accounts. They are now basically consuming a constant stream of advertisements voluntarily.

that’s why the fediverse a) so important as it is owned by no one but run/maintained/managed Democratic ally by us (“the public”) and b) so foreign for many people who have become accustomed to algorithmic feeds, constant bombardment by dopamine-optimized and subtle personalized advertisements that seeing organic content not selected by “engagement” (triggering, enraging, divisive, etc) that they are weirded out by it.