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 After experiencing the products of #Tiktok and #Instagram , I deeply feel that it is not the backwardness of the algorithm, but the backwardness of the product thinking.

The difference between TikTok's intelligent algorithm recommendation and Instagram's intelligent algorithm recommendation is that TikTok treats you as a living man or woman with various hobbies and interests, as well as thinking ability and life. It knows that men like sexy beauties. Women like men with perfect abdominal muscles. But Instagram just treats all users as sexual animals. Why not go directly to pornographic websites. Pornographic websites are at least better than Instagram. 
 I’ve never tried TikTok, but the algo for Insta reels is pretty awesome for me. Keeps me cracking up for a bit. Way better than YouTube’s algo these days. I don’t browse the normal feed in Insta so not sure about that algo. 
 Maybe you have been using it for a long time and you have tuned the recommendation algorithm very well. I have just started using it.