I get the same thing. I can see images for other posts, but this one just shows the link until I click to open the post

Device information

Sync version: v23.08.02-18:53    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: cheetah    
Model: Google Pixel 7 Pro    
Android: 13

To be fair, I have to do this with Android sometimes as well

It’s working!

It feels like the same reason that Reels isn’t doing well, people who wanted TikTok would have already got TikTok, you can’t force Instagram users to like Twitter/TikTok but on their Insta account instead.

I’m never going to download or sign up for TikTok. I know Meta isn’t really that great as far as privacy goes, but at least they don’t share information directly with the CCP. Fuck the CCP. IG Reels works just fine for me. I actually can’t stand the IG home feed because of the algorithm showing me what it wants to show me instead of a chronological timeline of the posts of the people I follow, so I mostly just use IG for stories and Reels.

Unfortunately for me, one of my favorite uses for reddit has been live game threads for various sports and that really only works with a larger user base. For instance, I follow the Seattle Mariners and I have found two different Lemmy instances for them. The one with the most subscribers (44) hasn’t had a game thread posted in 13 days despite the Mariners having played like 10 games in that stretch. The other one has 9 subscribers, although it looks like someone has set up a bot to automatically post a game thread and a post-game thread; however, every single one I looked at has 0 comments.

I’m not gonna be able to pull the plug on reddit entirely until Lemmy gets a serious increase in users.