Has Instagram lost the trust of its users? There are signs that prove it. The Meta-owned app (formerly known as Facebook) has gone through a lot of changes over the past couple of years that haven’t quite caught on with the more enthusiastic user base.
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Concretely, it gives the impression that Instagram is no longer made for taking photos. We’re not saying it, so said the head of the service, Adam Mosseri, in statements that, a year later, are still causing controversy. Since then, Instagram has mainly focused on video and more specifically on Reels, the short videos with which it wants to attract the public that uses TikTok.
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The response from Instagram’s original users, who used it as a social network for photos, did not welcome the changes and has already forced the company to give them some love with the cancellation of some changes and the presentation of new features for Photos
But that’s not enough, as shown by the launch of The OG App, a new app that has hit the Play Store and promises to bring back the original Instagram experience. Something that, as usual, hasn’t done very well on Instagram or Meta, which have already done the app Banned from the Apple App Storein addition to having blocked the Facebook accounts of the developer team.
But for some reason the OG app is still on the Android Play Store. We don’t know if that’s because Google doesn’t consider the app to be doing anything wrong, or because it’s a bit slower to respond to this type of request; but the thing is, at the time of writing, the OG app for Android is still downloadable.
That’s exactly what we did, and we met a very familiar experience. It is true that The OG App brings back something from the “old” Instagram, although that means that in terms of interface and functions there is really not much to say. It’s Instagram, no distractions, no frills.
La única función realmente original es la que nos permite crear nuestro propio ‘feed’ personalizado, que es muy parecido a las listas de Twitter; básicamente, consiste en añadir usuarios a cada feed dependiendo de su temática, para así verlos todos juntos en vez de según como decidan los algoritmos de Instagram. Los creadores llaman a esto “devolver el control” de nuestra cuenta, y es un posible motivo por el que Instagram está intentando cerrar la app.
Claro, que la motivación más probable es otra: el dinero. Concretamente, el dinero por publicidad que Instagram deja de ingresar, ya que esta app no tiene anuncios, así que podemos disfrutar de las cuentas que seguimos sin interrupciones.
Es de esperar que The OG App no dure mucho. De hecho, en nuestras pruebas ya se notaba muy lenta y en un momento determinado, Instagram nos bloqueó la cuenta por usar la app, aunque pudimos recuperarla sin muchos problemas.
Por lo tanto, no recomendamos usar The OG App. Existen otras apps que hacen cosas parecidas y no han atraído tanto la atención, y no esperamos que The OG App dure mucho antes de ser bloqueada completamente.
- Descargar The OG App para Android.