I actually really love instagram more than most other social networks I use.

I follow ~1500 Japanese cat accounts, ~50 personal friends (who mostly post food/travel/etc.), and ~100 "influencer" and "brand" accounts for companies I like, and ~10 meme accounts.

I mostly post random photos during travel, ranging from food photographs to cats to landscapes to sometimes things from conferences, mostly going for "visually interesting.

Locked to friends-only, and just remove people if they're slightly annoying even if I know them IRL.

The only thing I dislike about my use of IG is the lack of "easy to download photo from someone else's IG", but that's a product decision. I keep wanting to set up an actual self-hosted photo gallery but never get around to it, and the iphone cameraroll to IG workflow is so easy.