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| p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · Advice on building a follower base on Instagram | |
The Instagram algo changes a lot. What it rewards pretty steadily is activity: liking and following others as well as getting activity on your own account. And yes, it heavily prioritizes video right now. It really does take a LOT of time.
Hashtags can be good and can be bad. Every now and then there will be a "penalized" hashtag (there is a huge ever-changing soup of these) and you can get downgraded/removed from the discovery feeds for using something as seemingly innocuous as #streetphoto. So, it's a hard place to win.
You've done great - you have a lot of followers in terms of photographers on Instagram (although at a quick glance you also have a fair number of bots/unreal accounts, which isn't your fault as they follow hashtags, but it can hurt you in the algo). If you want to have a societal impact in terms of STEM I would agree with many of the other posters - there are other ways.
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