No, social media is not just for pictures.
But if someone is using it just for pictures and you try to sell them on a service that isn’t fitting to their use case, that’s on you if they’re not interested.
Know your audience. Offer them alternatives that actually fit their preferences, not yours.
There’s a keyword filter and an NSFW filter
Can filter out selected communities and users too
Wait how do I use the cat filter
Oooh they were talking about Image filters…
My brain defaulted to keyword filters etc
Maybe checkout Pixelfed, which is (from what I gather) similar to what instagram was 10 years ago
This made me check on how pixelfed has been faring, since I remember them going through a huge boom recently - and to my joy, they still have a very large (for fediverse standards) community, they even rebounded a bit from the initial drop of people leaving after trying it out!