Tracked your own data for 4 months which already puts you ahead of most people crying about the algorithm. Here's the angle nobody talks about: muting those tags probably fixed your own taste, not the app. You stopped marinating in the same 50 viral woodworking clips and started noticing what regular people actually build and ask about. That changes what you make next, and what you make next is what drives saves. I did the same thing with my feed last year, cut the big accounts, followed a bunch of tiny ones, and my comments got way better because I was replying to real questions instead of fighting for space under a million views. The reach followed the ideas, not some timing chart.