But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it? ;-)

I get what you're getting too, also wall-of-texts multi-image posts, often content reposted from reddit, I guess the algorithm thinks "Oh, user is engaged for many seconds with all the images on posts like this, gotta serve them more of them!".

I've programmed Tasker to kill Instagram after a minute of me opening it and I've made another Tasker script that asks me to input a 9-digit random number, makes me wait between 5-45 seconds and then allows me 10 minutes of the app before making me do the whole process again.

Women with few clothes (sadly) always grab my attention, yes. But I think that content is also being pushed despite my attention to other things because it works in general.

But you get the point, the recommendations are just a stream of nonsense-content, screenshots of screenshots of Reddit posts...

I don't get it. Either there's no good, original content available out there or the algorithm just doesn't want to show it.

> But is it not observing what grabs your attention, and then serving you more of it?

I'm reasonably certain clicking into a piece of content to block the account still counts as more engagement for that type of content. They don't seem to have a "clicked, then immediately blocked" sort of signal.