ight bet bro preciate itMajority of the people are saying that follow ups on old messages count as new DMs. I doubt all of them might have actually done those tests personally, and are mostly assuming things.
From my experience I'd say follow ups shouldn't be considered as equal to a pure new IG outreach by IG Algo. And if I were at your place, I'd just run a test for it for a couple of days, and confirm it 100% for myself. So I'd personally would recommend that instead.
thats detailed