Question about instagram overall

Hello everyone.

I'm currently running an instagram (fitness niche) account with around 700 followers and 40 likes per post and I am uploading 1 picture per day.

Now I have few questions, so I would be grateful if you could give me some answers.

Should I think about monetizing the account during the account growth or just grow it up to the point where I can sell shoutouts?

Also, I'm using follow/unfollow method and I read somewhere on the forum that when Facebook bought Instagram - the algorithm changed. So is that true and if it is, what exactly changed? Should I give up on my instagram account?

Please do note that I get around 20+% response when following, current followers to following ratio is 22.3%. I'm following around 200 people per day, I'm taking this very slowly as I don't want to get my account in any kind of "danger". I don't have a problem doing this for a year if it's needed just to get some money out of it as I'm that type of person. But if there's no point of doing it, then I wouldn't really want to waste my time on it.

I hope you understand, looking forward to your feedback.

Thank you in advance and sorry for the grammar mistakes now and there - I'm not a native English speaker.

Have a nice day, Liam.

Never give up !!
Keep growing your acc to reach atleast 10K so you can get to sell S/O (thats wat I do) ...

And yes facebook changed some settings of IG, fighting spam accs and ban them, but stay careful.

IG is a very very profitable, I grow accs to 10K followers and then sell them. It's going great. Beside selling S/Os..

Best of luck