If you don't want someone's story to appear in the bar at the top of Feed, you can mute their story.
Mute someone's story
- At the top of feed, tap and hold the profile picture of the person whose story you'd like to mute.
- Select Mute, then tap next to Story.
Unmute someone's story
- Tap their username from their Feed post, or tap and search their username to go to their profile.
- Tap Following below their bio.
- Tap Mute, then tap next to Stories.