It tracks the past 12 months I think, with a weird formula awarding points. It was never a relevant ranking

How are Brazil 5th? They are terrible

Nah I have that activated. I think it’s simply a bandwidth issue, with the bandwidth being bigger for accounts with many followers, resulting in better quality uploads

I’ve seen lots of posts recently that now supposedly you don’t have to use hashtags anymore.

On the other hand, you have to use a specific range of techniques and hooks (like: "Here’s why " or "X reasons why

Unfortunately Instagram’s algorithm has changed a lot in the past few months and it’s very difficult to get exposure in there, unless you use certain tricks (certain keywords that act as hooks, certain techniques like “read more in caption” and other crap)

This is one big reason why I don’t really post too often myself.

As to “what do I do with my photography”, I just … keep what I like. The ones that I edit and export, I keep on my phone (in case I ever want to post something, or in case I want to show anything to someone), and the ones I don’t edit are in an album in Lightroom.

But then again, i`m not a professional photographer so I don’t make any money out of it. I just do it as a hobby and for myself :)