still can't share a link on instagram - what am i missing?

the link in a caption is never clickable, that's the whole thing. instagram only makes links tappable in three places: the bio (edit profile, links, you can add up to five now), the link sticker in a story, and DMs. so if you pasted a url into a post caption and watched for traffic, nothing was ever going to move. put it in the bio, say "link in bio" in the caption, and use the story sticker when you have something specific to push.