>Let each person choose what they want their Instagram to be That's not as valuable to advertisers though. With recommendations and algorithmic sorting, the pl

>Let each person choose what they want their Instagram to be That's not as valuable to advertisers though. With recommendations and algorithmic sorting, the platform gets to mold what's important, and that influence makes it easy to sell off to the highest bidder. I find a lot of value in following my friends---and my friends only. It's why we've all generally migrated off traditional social media and into private group chats. There's no algorithm mediating our interactions, and no one is going to try to sell our attention to outside parties.