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Gaucho Knifemaker
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Not a regular in this subforum, I mostly post at Shop Talk, but this issue is important for us knifemakers, hopefully this petition can raise awareness for us all.
Link to petition: https://www.change.org/knifemakers
The problem:
Knifemakers around the world are being silenced by Instagram, is not a shadow ban, they say it openly, our content will only be shown to followers not to the big audience Instagram has...
It's been like this since end of 2023, this directly repercutes directly in how our work can be shared and of course it repercutes in lost sales.
I'm a knifemaker from Argentina, the "funny part" is that every post I make about knives gets taken down, due to not following the community policies, but after I ask for a review, they are always reinstated, so they DO follow the rules.
But the ban is never removed. We need to remove this ban.
This is the same for almost every knifemaker all around the world.
Even culinary knives are being flagged, this needs to change.
To knifemakers: if you want to know if your content is being shown to non followers, switch your Instagram account to professional (you can go back to your current type) then go to account status in your profile settings and there you will see many checkmarks, if you see an orange one instead of all green, you're affected.
Link to petition: https://www.change.org/knifemakers
The problem:
Knifemakers around the world are being silenced by Instagram, is not a shadow ban, they say it openly, our content will only be shown to followers not to the big audience Instagram has...
It's been like this since end of 2023, this directly repercutes directly in how our work can be shared and of course it repercutes in lost sales.
I'm a knifemaker from Argentina, the "funny part" is that every post I make about knives gets taken down, due to not following the community policies, but after I ask for a review, they are always reinstated, so they DO follow the rules.
But the ban is never removed. We need to remove this ban.
This is the same for almost every knifemaker all around the world.
Even culinary knives are being flagged, this needs to change.
To knifemakers: if you want to know if your content is being shown to non followers, switch your Instagram account to professional (you can go back to your current type) then go to account status in your profile settings and there you will see many checkmarks, if you see an orange one instead of all green, you're affected.
