Hashtag Reach higher but Organic lower

[Derdam]

Hey!
I just wanted to know if this is a Problem that more People noticed.
So: I get the same reach on every post (round about)
If I rank for Hashtags the “Home Page” reach goes down and I receive less likes because of it - the other way around is this case: I get a lot of “Home Page” reach and because they follow me because they like the content I get more likes.
Why is that? Was there an algorithm change that triggered something like that?
Here are Screenshot (German tho).
Can I do something about it? Because my ER drops because of that.

The first post has almost 2000 Likes and the second one almost 1000

[Powerlifter]

I’m noticing the exact same thing. Instagram is giving me outrageous hashtag reach, but they won’t show my own followers squat.

[Hexe]

https://mpsocial.com/t/how-can-we-grow-our-following-these-days/81743/40?u=hexe

Pasting an answer I wrote in September. It’s not that new, it happens sometime already.

How can we grow our following these days?

It seems that IG follows a formula to determine a range of minimum organic reach for each account and this range of reach will be shared respectively among the destinations you give IG. Eg. when you use location and no hashtags it will share your amount of reach between these two destinations, so you ll get an amount of people who will see your post through location and the rest will be your followers. If you use hashtags and location again it will share your reach among the three. When I used nothing else, ie no hashtags no location, i noticed this peculiar thing, that the reach increased though the ‘other sources’, as if IG didn’t want to show my post to more followers than the usual range it does !!! As for explorer, it did show up in the analytics when i didn’t use location or hashtags, but was a small amount of views.

P.S. Theoretically, you will get the most amount of followers to see your post when you don’t use hashtags or when your hashtags don’t work well. That’s what happens to me also.

P.S2. Some people also don’t use hashtags because that way their post get more views from explorer.

[Powerlifter]

I wonder what the “other sources” category is. And wish Instagram would just show my followers my post instead of limiting that, like you said.

[cantele]

I’m experiencing this as well. Did you come up with something youself?