Bas Grasmayer wrote a fantastic piece about Instagram Stories, which opens with "The top row on Instagram excites me"

And posting something dumb, a snippet of your day, asking mates to join you for a drink is only fun when people see it, and respond. Which Bas argues is exactly what happens, and anecdotally we can support his claim.

The algorithmic feeds remove this spontaneity and intimacy that comes from something that was never meant to last. In other words: it's not very fun.