IG and shadow banning/censoring

12345678910 said:
Can you do that in the USA ?

Here you can get a postal money order at the post office and a money order at the bank, but never the twain shall meet.
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Yup, Get MO at PO..... Then cash at bank.
*idk if ALL banks will, but the bank/credit union (actually) which holds my accounts Will/does.
In USA

We can cash at PO too, but as mentioned above, often they don't have enough cash on hand.
With a nice smile, and a friendly face I talked my PO worker into letting me know the best days to visit when they have the Most cash on hand.... So I could do that, but I just choose to visit my bank instead.

I bet large chains like Walm*rt might too? I believe this was common, normal everyday life in the early days, before e-commerce.
 
I can tell you that I haven’t grown even 800 followers since 2019. I was growing well then changes were made. Algorithms were put in place non chronological feeds hurt me too. It’s not as bad for the makers who have 26K followers but when you’re under 3K it’s hard to grow or even reach your own followers.

I’ve given up on trying to get unbanned I’ll continue to post cool stuff and hope people find me. It’s not a platform for makers like us.
 
Way-Barney said:
Are Instagram doing it to all craftspeople trying to run a business for free on their platform or does it appear to be just knifemakers, my first thoughts were that they will soon be charging business rates or commission for use and I don't blame them really, I would.
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If I’m paying to use their platform then I shouldn’t have to see 600 ads a day that are irrelevant to me.
 
Today I had an idea after viewing that verified users have a 24x7 live support, verified myself with Meta ($10/mo cancellable anytime) and once verified (took less than an hour) I went right away to help.
The lady I chatted with suggested to put the minimum age for my content at 18yo and wait for the running appeal to finish, if it doesn't solve, to appeal again since it was running after I updated the minimum age.
Minimum age setting is only possible when you set your account to professional or business. https://help.instagram.com/853772598370828

I'll let you know how it goes, the best $10 I spent lately LOL

Pablo
 
PEU said:
Today I had an idea after viewing that verified users have a 24x7 live support, verified myself with Meta ($10/mo cancellable anytime) and once verified (took less than an hour) I went right away to help.
The lady I chatted with suggested to put the minimum age for my content at 18yo and wait for the running appeal to finish, if it doesn't solve, to appeal again since it was running after I updated the minimum age.
Minimum age setting is only possible when you set your account to professional or business. https://help.instagram.com/853772598370828

I'll let you know how it goes, the best $10 I spent lately LOL

Pablo
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I’ve changed my minimum age and it hasn’t helped (been set to 18 for over a week) the live custom support seemed like a great idea at first then I very quickly realized all of the agents are just outsourced from a call center with a set script to follow. I’ve yet to have a single agent in a dozen or more service chats and calls do anything to help even when the issue was related to wanting to spend money advertising none of the agents were truly helpful. Most of the time they refer you to broken facebook links, often it pretty easy to see there is a language barrier, I understand they are doing their job and do not blame them for not being able to help. I blame Instagram or meta for choosing to outsource their customer support knowing that the support teams will not be able to actually help beyond sending people resource links to try to resolve issues, which again half those links seem to be broken or just go through automated systems to try to appeal issues which means the support chats really don’t do anything. Not trying to be a buzz kill but just sharing my experiences with the platform and trying multiple avenues for resolving issues.
 
The best solution I’ve been able to come up with is running a paid ad for my kitchen knives set to run continuously with the goal of driving people to my profile, so far this has led to a larger increase in new followers who will hopefully see more normal posts since none of my regular posts are recommendable in certain feeds that may reach non followers.
 
Joshua Fisher said:
The best solution I’ve been able to come up with is running a paid ad for my kitchen knives set to run continuously with the goal of driving people to my profile, so far this has led to a larger increase in new followers who will hopefully see more normal posts since none of my regular posts are recommendable in certain feeds that may reach non followers.
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That's a good idea Joshua,
You have to speculate to accumulate.
IG will have the lowdown on everyones social and purchasing preferences, they should target your adds to an audience that's interested specifically in what you offer. they will want you to spend more money on advertising so they will ensure that it goes to the right places in order that it works for you.
Those guys are professional marketers, they have as much sense and pride of "getting it right" as we do on the heat treatment.
 
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I don't make a lot of knives, but I've found mastodon quite good for selling them. It's my personal social media, but when I finish one I share it and say if I'm selling it, and they seem to sell pretty quickly. It is a technically confusing service though.
I do have IG, I assume the lack of reach there is that the business model is to push the big accounts and then sell ads to us smaller accounts.
 
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