How do apps (Insta and the like) provide content between users with different software versions? What makes it all so seamless?

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How do apps (Insta and the like) provide content between users with different software versions? What makes it all so seamless?

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many times software upgrades like this are done w/ feature flags, so new features are added and the backend software knows whether to serve X version or Y version based off of what features the end users’ software version supports (5 year olds are pertty smart these days I hope they can follow that… )

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