Instagram is once again providing timeline feed to all its users

Instagram now offers its users the option of displaying a series of messages chronologically, and not just managed by the ranking algorithm. Adam Mosseri, CEO of the company; Announced on his Twitter account on Tuesday, March 23rd.

Photo and video social networking owned by Meta (formerly Facebook) has previously tested this feature and Announced its deployment in January. In addition to the regular Instagram feed managed by the algorithm, Internet users can click on two additional navigation windows:

• In the “Subscriptions” tab, you will see the content posted by the accounts for which they have subscribed, in the order in which they were published.
• The “Favorites” tab displays the contents of specific accounts that the user likes.

Indicates that these options, which are available on iOS and Android, will not be active on PCs American technology news site Tech Crunch.

Toxic suggestions

It did not return to the original Instagram feed, which was chronological until 2016. “We believe in customization”, Adam Moseri promises in the video he tweeted on March 23 that the main page of the application will continue to be delivered and managed in the same way. Currently, its automated ranking algorithms take into account a large number of codes – especially accounts that users usually like (“Like”) – to determine which photos and videos they are interested in.

Most recently, this selection and recommendation system has been the subject of considerable criticism from associations and researchers who consider it to prioritize many harmful content. Documents Revealed by a former employee of Facebook at the end of 2021 Among other things, content published by celebrities was strongly advertised in Internet users’ feeds, and Francis Hazen pointed out that it could have a negative impact on the well-being and self-esteem of some of Instagram’s users.