[mgraczyk]

No, having worked on explore sourcing and ranking I can tell you with certainty Instagram does not do the same thing.

[PunchTornado]

new account on instagram, click explore, there are people there, nobody ugly.

search for any tag that has mainly people like beach or hiking, all accounts are from very beautiful people with lots of followers.

your algorithm promotes people with more followers and likes, which are bound to be more beautiful people. Unless you avoid any interest in tags related to people and see only beautiful bunnies, not ugly bunnies, your feed will be only beautiful creatures.

I don't know how you can deny that.

[scarmig]

Implementation is different, but passes all the same test cases.

[mgraczyk]

Instagram explore is actually pretty good at becoming personalized based on usage. Here's mine.

https://assets.opentoken.com/sha256/yhEqWEExzLtoLZ_fBRrGsyOD...

[Summershard]

Maybe it works that way, because users prefer to follow pretty people.

[PunchTornado]

the question is having an algorithm do that (suppresing ugly and therefore unpopular users/photo) is different than having a moderator do it?

[cvlasdkv]

yes because it's a choice.

[lenkite]

No, it does not. View Cats on Instagram and you will see Cats on Instagram.