4x scaled? On my machine the web version is tiiiiny. Even when we had 800x600 screen resolution websites showed more content than Instagram.

It also shows signup takeovers after clicking 2 links so without some sort of scraping proxy like Nitter it will be just as useless as Twitter if you only want to follow from the outside.

I feel like I'm at risk of blowing both of your minds here, but you can change the size of the website by just scaling it in your browser to exactly the size you want, likely using ctrl-+/- (maybe cmd).

The point is that the content density is abysmal and you can't change that with C-+.

For sure. I've tried it (not that I had to go on there often) but it doesn't really help. It will just make _everything_ tiny and weird, lol.

And let's not forget, you cannot post content from the web version, unless you resize the window to make it small enough.

Sometimes I wonder if they make their products absolute shit on purpose, for a social experiment or something

That's not correct? I see the post button on side in full screen web.

It used to be like that until some months ago.

Since Oct '21, so almost two years. But yeah, it's a more recent addition.

you can't post to stories from desktop, a notable missing feature.