Best of Instagram — 2025

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    Avatar of 2ap5reqdwgqext5qgqtkwTinashe Mutuswa·44w

    'Influencer' who garnered 165k followers while 'enjoying Wimbledon' is revealed as an AI creation

    An AI-generated Instagram influencer named Mia Zelu fooled 165,000 followers into believing she was a real person attending Wimbledon. The fake account garnered over 40,000 likes on posts showing her at the tennis tournament, even deceiving celebrities like cricketer Rishabh Pant. Despite being labeled as an 'AI storyteller' in her profile, many followers continue to interact with the account as if she were real, highlighting the sophistication of AI-generated personas and their potential to deceive social media users.

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    Avatar of tcTechCrunch·1y

    How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

    Meta's recent decision to relax its content moderation policies and remove its third-party fact-checking system has led to a surge in users searching for ways to delete their Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts. The post provides detailed instructions on how to download personal data from Facebook and Instagram before deletion and outlines the steps for permanently deleting accounts on these platforms.

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    Avatar of antfuAnthony Fu·1y

    Photos Page

    A frontend developer shares the creation of a personal photos page on their website, moving away from Instagram due to recent changes. Utilizing skills in web development, the author downloaded and processed their Instagram data, preserving memories and building a custom platform to share their photos.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·1y

    How Instagram Scaled Its Infrastructure To Support a Billion Users

    Instagram has evolved significantly since its launch in 2010, overcoming early scalability challenges and transforming to support over a billion users. Key strategies included migrating from AWS to Facebook’s data centers, implementing distributed databases, and optimizing caching mechanisms. The platform uses Django for its web framework, RabbitMQ for message brokering, and Celery for asynchronous task processing. Their backend architecture and deployment models incorporate continuous integration and automated monitoring, ensuring high performance and reliability.

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