Instagram is considering several approaches for its News Feed, two of which involve ranking the feed chronologically.
Instagram will reinstate the chronological thread in 2022, which existed until 2017 before this display mode was withdrawn, to the chagrin of some Internet users. More exactly, there should be two: this is what Adam Mosseri, the director of Instagram, suggests in a post on Twitter on January 5, 2022.
” Testing the News Feed changes: We’re starting to test the ability to switch between three different views on your Home screen (two of which would give you the option to view posts in chronological order) He writes. There would be the standard display at the home page, the one on favorites and the one on subscriptions.
Algorithmic classification will be kept
The final form of the display modes of the news feed is not yet decided and it remains to be seen whether Instagram will indeed keep two types of chronological feed – in the end, Instagram could simply entrust these different modes to Internet users and let them choose what. that they prefer, a bit like for “likes”, rather than imposing such and such a solution.
Currently, Instagram relies on an algorithmic feed that attempts to sort itself out among all the posts arriving each day. The application claims to be able to bring out the most relevant for the Internet user, but with the effect of relegating certain arrivals more recently. Instagram should not abandon this approach in 2022, however.
If Instagram, a subsidiary of Facebook, is turning away from algorithmic display, its parent company is still very attached to it. Indeed, on the American social network, this mode remains privileged: it is certainly possible to pass the thread chronologically, but it is necessary to do the manipulation regularly, because Facebook prefers that you use a “personalized” home page.
This work on how to present publications illustrates the reflections that exist within tech companies on the effects of these algorithmic recommendations, with often opaque rules, unlike sorting according to a time or date. These recommendations, supposed to be appropriate according to the taste of the Net surfer, also have the drawback of keeping it in a filter bubble.
