I see it daily in Montana. Never thought I’d see such blatant scum that are protected here.

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      Yep. My account was locked today for speaking out on such a channel. The entire platform is Russian bots, facists promoting and child molesters.

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    Unfortunately if you play music in a band Instagram is kind of a necessary evil for spreading news about your band.

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      In my experience, Instagram has also become the most reliable source for local restaurants randomly being closed (this has happened more often than I would like to discuss post-pandemic) and breweries (i.e. which food truck is at which brewery on any given day).

      I have found those to be the only reasons that I ever check Instagram.

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        Yeah, for anything local, Instagram and Facebook are still the way to go. I don’t have a personal Instagram account, but when I check the band’s account I really don’t see anything questionable in there. I guess it just comes down to who you follow and who follows you. The worst thing I see is the occasional bot spam or bot account follow.