Meta Platforms's Instagram was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday morning, according outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 6,549 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform as of 9:16 a.

Instagram is down for thousands of users, according to Downdetector. The outage detection site found that just under 10,000 people reported the social media platform was not operating normally. There was a massive spike in reports from users just before 2pm on Wednesday.

Instagram may be experiencing an outage Wednesday morning. Reports of Instagram being down have surged on downdetector.com. Instagram appeared to be down for some users Wednesday morning. Downdetector.

The platform is seeing a surge in popularity following Meta’s announcement last week that it would be drastically changing its content moderation policies; over the weekend, Pixelfed said that it’s seeing “unprecedented levels of traffic” to the pixelfed.

The Fediverse website offers users the same photo-sharing experience as Instagram without any of the surveillance.

Open source, decentralized image-sharing platform Pixelfed is now available as a mobile app for both iOS and Android.