– Instagram will certainly restore the timeline algorithm to its original state, where users can view posts chronologically or in order by time. This was stated by the Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri during a hearing with the US Senate. “We’re working on a chronological version of the feed that hopefully will be released next year, in the first quarter of 2022,” Mosseri said. Through a post on Twitter, Instagram also confirmed that this new algorithm does not use the old mechanism, but is channeled through a new feature.
“We wanted to make it clear that we’re working on a new option, not switching everyone back to a chronological feed,” Instagram wrote. On the same occasion, Instagram also said that it had tested the “Favorites” feature.
As the name implies, this feature is claimed to be able to display Instagram feed posts based on the people or accounts of closest friends selected by the user. “We’ve been experimenting with Favorites, a way for you to decide whose posts you’d like to see higher up, and we’re working on another option to see posts from people you follow in chronological order,” Instagram wrote.
After that, the platform under the auspices of Meta got a lot of user complaints, because it was considered “similar” to other social media. However, Instagram does not immediately comply with user requests, because it considers that the algorithm can increase engagement or communication that occurs on Instagram. Contrastingly, former Facebook employee and whistleblower, Frances Haugen, supports efforts to return to serving posts in chronological feeds. According to Haugen, this mechanism is claimed to be able to eradicate the spread of misinformation (hoaxes) and the occurrence of algorithm bias.
“I’m a strong supporter of sorting chronologically, or sorting by time with a slight decline due to spam, because I don’t think we want computers to decide what we want,” Haugen said.
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