One major win for Instagram (Besides the just-pictures you mentioned) is that following isn't a mutual thing, so there's no social pressure to be 'friends' with someone even though you're not interested in the content they generate.

My facebook feed has officially jumped the shark as of the last 6-12 months. I blame the 2016 election and Facebook IPO. At this point almost every single article in my feed is an advertisement (some overt, some not). The few posts that are actually from my friends are politically charged links they share. It seems that 80% of people do not share content on Facebook, but the 20% of people who do, share it multiple times per day. Even though I have ~1500 friends on Facebook (all personally known over the past 10 years), I see posts from the same ~25 people, most of whom I hardly ever interact with, every single day.

The only time I browse my FB newsfeed is on my phone when I've run out of any other interesting content online. I never browse it on my desktop. I do use FB messenger quite frequently.

I like Instagram and Snapchat because they are what Facebook used to be: real content created by and shared by your friends. Not links to bullshit articles. Not advertisements. Just content that your friends created for you to watch.

Same. I use Facebook for nothing but messaging now, and have every other feature blocked with my adblocker.

You can use messenger directly at https://www.messenger.com/

My favorite thing Facebook has rolled out in years. So convenient to just point my browser there instead of having a massive pile of distractions waiting every time I want to answer a message.

Is there a tinfoil to just use Messenger?

I'm not sure what you mean, but it's now possible to deactivate your FB account and continue to use Messenger.

Sorry, I was asking if there is something similar to Tinfoil for Facebook, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco... , but just for Messenger.

All I see on Instagram is "Double tap to ..." posts.

That's a problem with those you follow, not the service.

Nop, that's in that "Discover section"