Instagram's new test lets you mute specific words from suggested posts
Instagram is giving users more ways to tweak their suggested posts amid a backlash to the app’s aggressive shift toward recommendations. The app is testing athat will allow users to use keywords and emoji to mute certain topics from appearing in suggested posts.
The change will block posts in which the users’ keywords, which can include emoji as well as words and phrases, appear in the caption or hashtag for a post. “You can use this feature to stop seeing content that’s not interesting to you,” Instagram writes in a blog post. Users can customize their filter words from the app's settings. The company notes that people can also opt to snoozeInstagram is also testing a new way to weed out unwanted posts from the app’s Explore section.
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