Instagram Instants - what's the story behind it?

Abhigyan wrote about a new Instagram feature called ‘Instants’ on his blog. It’s some kind of side project from Meta. Here’s how it works: At first, it looked like an imitation of BeReal; the user interface was just a squircle viewfinder and a button to click a picture. But the concept of Instants is even simpler: 1. Take a picture at any time you want, and as many as you want. 2. It is instantly…