Maybe IG could solve this problem with "tags"? I'd like to be able to tag the accounts I follow as "Friends", "Influencers", "Brands", etc and then filter the feed by these tags. The feed would look like the current feed (which I like: I can find new accounts to follow with it) by default but then I could hit "Filter by..." or something to quickly look at my Friends' posts. (Maybe cleaner on the engineering side if you make it binary, i.e. Friends v All, don't allow arbitrary tags, which I think also works for the main issue.)
Honestly from my experience, most friends I follow have shifted from posting weekly to may be monthly or once every few months, focusing more on stories. So I guess IG has a point in saying that even though users say they want to see their friends, most people actually don't post that much : )
Maybe IG could solve this problem with "tags"? I'd like to be able to tag the accounts I follow as "Friends", "Influencers", "Brands", etc and then filter the feed by these tags. The feed would look like the current feed (which I like: I can find new accounts to follow with it) by default but then I could hit "Filter by..." or something to quickly look at my Friends' posts. (Maybe cleaner on the engineering side if you make it binary, i.e. Friends v All, don't allow arbitrary tags, which I think also works for the main issue.)
Honestly from my experience, most friends I follow have shifted from posting weekly to may be monthly or once every few months, focusing more on stories. So I guess IG has a point in saying that even though users say they want to see their friends, most people actually don't post that much : )