October 13, 2026
Your Algorithm: Facebook rebuilds your feed from your own words, 10 months after Instagram
Facebook has opened Your Algorithm: you describe the topics you want in your feed in your own words, and recommendations rebuild right away.
The three-dot menu on a Facebook post now leads to a place where you rewrite your feed in your own words.
Meta calls it "an algorithm you can talk to." Under the hood, LLMs pull interests, context and intent out of a plain sentence, then blend them with the usual engagement signals (Meta blog, Oct 13, 2026).
How to turn it on. The three-dot menu on any post in Feed or Reels opens a dedicated Your Algorithm space. There you add and remove topics in your own words, and recommendations rebuild in real time.
A second way into the same mechanism is hidden in the old buttons. Tap "Interested" or "Not interested" and Facebook asks a follow-up question. Ranking takes your free-text answer into account within the same session.
Before and now. Arguing with the feed used to come down to two buttons on individual posts. Now you describe what you want in text, and the app asks follow-up questions itself (Dataconomy review, Oct 14, 2026).
The feature took 10 months to reach Facebook. Instagram Reels got it in December 2025, US only at first, Explore on Apr 15, 2026, and it opened globally in English on Jun 10, 2026 (Unite.AI review, Oct 13).
On Threads the same idea is called Dear Algo and works differently: you write the request as a public post, and it adjusts your feed for three days. It launched on Feb 11, 2026 and is available in the US, New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
The machinery behind it has been running for a while: since July 2026, Meta has run every public Instagram post through an LLM. The previous wave of recommendation changes added 10% to Reels watch time, a figure from Meta itself.
Next, Meta wants to move Your Algorithm out of settings and into the feed itself: on Jun 27, 2026, Adam Mosseri showed tests of three gestures for opening it.