Instagram will be rolling out changes to your feed once again. They will be adding Recommended Posts to your feed, but these will not be from people that you currently follow. Instagram is deciding what posts to show you based on posts that were liked by people that you DO follow.
TechCrunch reports that the feature is being quietly released after it was spotted earlier this month while Instagram tested it out with a smaller subset of users.
Up until now, we have been able to choose to Explore when we wanted to find new stuff, or to just scroll through the latest posts from people we follow. If you don’t want this feature, Instagram’s help pages show you how to temporarily turn off the recommended posts.
On the flip side of this, if you are a photographer who wants to be seen, this could potentially give you a little more visibility. If you can get likes from some of the more popular accounts, you may be able to get one of your posts recommended to some new people.
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