#Instagram Updates Shadowbans

[first-digi-add]

What is the Instagram Shadowban?

When a social network becomes not only a place to socialize but also sometimes the main source of income, profile access restrictions can seriously spoil the statistics. Read our blog if you want to know if your account is blocked and how to remove the ban without serious losses. A hidden ban (also called a stealth ban or ghost ban) is a term often used to describe when a social media company limits the organic scope of a user's account.

If you hire a Social Media Marketing Expert they can take care of your all pages of social media they know everything about how to deal with this type of update. 

How to Recognize a Shadowban on Instagram

Shadowbanning can have a negative impact on your marketing strategy because it reduces the number of followers and engagement. As a result, it is always critical to check to see if Instagram has shadowbanned your account. So, how can you tell if your Instagram account has been shadowbanned? The following are key methods for determining whether your account has a shadowban:

1. Tag Search

A hashtag search is a simplest and most effective way to see if your account has been shadowbanned. When doing hashtag research, start by posting to your account and remember to use a hashtag in the post.

In particular, use a unique hashtag to make it easier to verify your post in search results. Then, ask at least five of your friends who do not follow your account to search for the hashtag. If the hashtag doesn't appear in the results, it's likely that Instagram has shadowbanned your account.

2. Use Instagram Analytics

Instagram analytics is also one of the most effective and dependable methods for detecting a shadowban on your account. This mechanism allows you to analyze profile visits, impressions, and additional metrics to see any issues.

These metrics will help you notice any sudden drops in your audience engagement rate. Although the drop in engagement rate is not a significant telltale sign, it does provide a bit of advice to signal a shadowban on your account.

3. Use Shadowban Testing Tools

The  Heist and Triberr are the best tools for analyzing your post and detecting any potential shadowbans. The tools can also reveal the specific hashtag of your shadowbanned account. The tools can help you identify shadowbanning on your account by highlighting or marking shadowbanned hashtags in red.

6 Ways to Avoid an Instagram Shadowban

1. Don't break the community guidelines

2. Don't act like a bot

3. Be consistent

4. Do not use prohibited hashtags

How to Remove a Shadowban on Instagram

1. Delete the Post that Shadowbanned you

If your shadowban occurred immediately after your last post, try removing it to see if your engagement returns to normal for your next posts.

2. Remove All Hashtags from Recent Posts

Does this work alone? Probably not, it's quick and easy. Remove all hashtags from your recent posts from the last 3-7 days.

3. Stop Posting for a Few Days

Some users say that this kind of "reset" their account and deleted a shadowban. Take a two to three-day break from all Instagram content, including Stories and Reels.

4. Check your Hashtags

Look up each of the hashtags you use to see if they have been banned or restricted. If so, stop using them and delete them from all your recent posts. You can take suggestion about the trending hashtag from Digital Marketing Agency in Pune they help you to find the best strategies for your account and pages

5. Go All-in on the Reels

We know Instagram prioritizes Reels right now. Posting Reels will increase your followers and engagement. So, push yourself and post one Reel a day for a few weeks. And, well, reels are always a good idea anyway. Get inspired by these Reel ideas that anyone can make in a short amount of time.

6. Deactivate and Reactivate your Instagram Account

Some users report that temporarily disabling their account for 1-2 days fixed a shadowban. There is no objective evidence that this works, so proceed with caution. Be sure to use the disable feature, which is reversible. It is not the same thing as deleting your account, which is not permitted.

[thedailydescent]

📚Book Raffle for Laila and Hashim!📚

"In those beautiful days, we used to meet in the morning and in the evening with delicious coffee and talk about our dreams for the future in order to build a new house or start a family and have a child, but now we don't meet on anything..."

Hashim and Laila (@hashimsafadi) are a couple from Gaza desperately trying to raise funds to evacuate safely, but unfortunately, despite campaigning for more than five months, have only raised €1,668 of their €30,000 goal. I have spoken about this couple before on my blog here, here, and here.

They have also been shadowbanned on Tumblr, and are unable to send messages or tag people. Because of this, I've decided to host a book raffle of behalf of them.

I am raffling off my copy of The Divine Comedy- Collectible Deluxe Edition - ILLUSTRATED Leather Bound Hardcover. It was purchased at the House of Medici in Florence, and is still in mint condition.

If you donate:

-€5-��9.99 to Hashim & Laila, you are entered in once,

-€10-€14.99, twice,

-€15-€19.99, three times,

-€20-€24.99, four times,

-€25+, five times.

Send me proof of donation by dropping it in my submission box (if I follow you or we're mutuals you may message me). The donation must have occurred between Oct 5-Nov 5. Nov 5 is the last day to enter and the winner will be announced on Nov 6!

Currently, Hashim and Laila are without proper shelter and have been suffering from the heat, rain, polluted drinking water, and skin diseases. They have already been displaced several times. It is vital that they have a safe place to stay in for the upcoming winter.

Please help them out.

This fundraiser has been vetted by Pali Pals (@victoriawhimsey).

You can also follow Hashim on Instagram here and here for further updates.

For further reach, reblog and tell me in the tags:

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[blackpearlblast]

[ID: a graphic with a picture of a destroyed building at the top and pictures of Ezzideen and his family members at the bottom. before the main text is an Instagram handle: @/ezzideenshehab. the text body reads: "Urgent Plea for Survival

I'm Ezzideen Shehab. I traveled to celebrate my med school graduation just a week before war turned my joy into a nightmare, costing me 72 family members. Now in the north, we're facing starvation with no food left. To escape Gaza for Egypt, each person needs $5000 through Hala Company. Every $1 we collect can save a life.

To make a donation, please scan the QR code provided or go to gofund.me/8c4d61ac." below is a QR code. end ID]

putting this in a separate post since i realized since ezzideen has been shadowbanned, his post is unlikely to be seen as easily (please look at and reblog it here though!) this is a verified campaign, you can see two post verifying it here (post 1) and here (post 2).

this graphic was made by boshra, ezzideen’s friend who is also helping with his gofundme. please save it and share it widely! we have been talking a lot over instagram trying to figure out how to get his campaign seen, as at this point, most of the projects dedicated to sharing gazans’ fundraisers like the watermelon project or operation olive branch are significantly backed up and unable to help. even if you can’t donate, saving the graphic and sending it to your family and friends or posting it on other social media would be a huge help, since it’s our only way of getting it out there right now.

ezzideen’s account got shadowbanned by tumblr so he is unable to send any messages for right now. if he makes a new account or gets his account un-shadowbanned i will update here. (edit: his account got deactivated after being un-shadowbanned so he is back on his other account, which is also shadowbanned)

direct link to his GFM

[prosolitude-alyaasabbagh]

Update 4/6/24 : My Child Magid got Hospitalized

I am writing this on the behalf of Firas Salem @firas-salem , I tried messaging him but I coudn't, I think he got shadowbanned AGAIN!! But I can't reach his phone right now He Needs Us More Than Ever!! Update 4/6/24 : My Child Magid got Hospitalized He suffered from severe Gastroenteritis, and it kept getting worse , vomiting and diarrhea .. His tiny body couldn't take it . The doctor said he lost almost 9 Pounds ! And blamed us for not bringing him sooner . We had to put him on IV because of dehydration.. my poor child is asthmatic as well so it took a toll on him . DONATE HERE

Please Pray for him Please DONATE here. Please Please Please Share . We Desperately NEED to get out !! I feel terrible!! I neglected my child and was busy providing and helping my sick parents and brother .. I hope no one has to go through this ! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING THERE FOR US ! Forever Grateful . DONATE HERE. Verified Fundraiser by @el-shab-hussein

PLEASE SHARE.. The donations almost stopped .. and we need every € .. It helps us a lot !! Please help us regain visibility 🙏 Magid is almost a year and half .. I just realized that .. in my head time almost stopped during this terrible war. poor Magid is a sweet good natured kid .. sadly ever since he opened his eyes , all he has witnessed is the turmoil of war, displacement, diseases and shelters.

PLEASE HELP US .. SHARE .. DONATE .. PRAY THANK YOU !!

@nabulsi @sayruq @palipunk @northgazaupdates @palestine-info-uncensored @communistchilchuck @ibtisams @fairuzfan @fallahifag @vakarian-shepard @vakarians-babe @plomegranate @sar-soor @stil-lindigo @blackfashion @palestbaby @instagram @palestinecharitycommissionsassoc

[littlekhada]

a lil update on whats going on

hi gang!

for now i am still shadowbanned on tumblr and i will stop posting here until the case is solved i think?? X)

@autisticallydone on tiktok, @littlekhada on instagram and telegram!

when i get my blog back i'll definitely bomb it with everything i've drawn :D

[miitarion]

Can I ask how you get customers for commissions? Is it from tumblr, people on Twitter, Instagram? I’m trying to figure out how to best market myself. I do commissions through Ko-fi. Thanks!

i wanted to answer it almost a month ago but then i forgot lol anyway, most of my commissioners are from Twitter, only few were from Tumblr, and one of the main reasons I stopped even bothering to update Insta is because I never could get any commissions from there I usually post the date when I'm planning to open commissions and pricing 2-3 weeks before the said date, it's also when I try to be the most active with reuploading old art / posting new one, so that more people will see the announcement about comms And, of course, when the date comes I make a post about comms being open with a link to a form (in my case, since I work through them), and with other necessary info (pricing, TOS, etc) Twitter is kind of stupid with the whole shadowbanning any post which has words resembling "commission" shtick, so I usually instead put a jpeg where the date and pricing are written with all other necessary info, along with putting into the same post several examples of my work hope this helps!

[fairuzfan]

By the way, you may have heard this, but shaun king's ig account got suspended.

This is probably your dream come true, but this still means palestinian posts disappearing from social media by the whims of meta. Also this happened after when mohamed al-kurd's twitter got banned. And after motaz said his ig got shadowbanned to hell and high waters... Is meta now progressing on the purge? What do we do?

I mean it's not my dream come true haha but I do hope people stop listening to him at least as an authority since he's a grifter who steals money.

The issue is for twitter, it's a separate company and the algorithm works differently than FB and IG. For Instagram, I know that saving/bookmarking posts will help, and sending posts that you think are important to people. I actually have always found the main feed on instagram annoying and just go to people's individual accounts to see if they updated so I would recommend doing that consistently.

For example, you could go to Bisan's account, then Anat International, then Motaz, then whoever else you want to check in on and like+share their posts.

For FB, I honestly don't know how to counter it that much. I remember in 2021, during Sheikh Jarrah and the May war on Gaza, I tried to post something with just the word "Palestine" and it straight up deleted the post right away. So like, intentional deletion based on a word. I haven't been on FB much since then so I don't know what it's like right now but it sounds like not much has changed.

I heard of 7amleh, which documents censorship of Palestinian speech online. You might wanna check them out, thought they're fairly new so I'm not sure what it is they do exactly.

[a-kai202]

dang i thought i got shadowbanned again i cant reply to my own posts🥲i just cant figure u out tumblr........ anyway i will still be more active on twitter / instagram / bluesky , i basically use the same username (a_kai202) on all platforms so it's pretty easy to find me

update: my acc is now restored but i probably wont be very active here cuz im too lazy to manage multiple social media accs

[no-fear-queers]

Here's Something About Me (Updated)

Decided to rework my intro post. The last one was a bit long and some information on that post is a little out of date. Some things have changed, and some haven’t (e.g. I don’t watch Creeped Out as much as I used to).

Anyway, I’m no_fear_queers both on here and on Instagram. If you found me on here and want to check out my Insta be sure to look for the account that has Ellis from Left 4 Dead 2 over a queer flag pfp. (Note: I don’t expect anyone to follow me on here or Instagram. Haven’t expected to get a whole lot of followers on either site since the accounts were made. I’m also pretty sure my Insta page is shadowbanned but that’s not the point.) I’m 22.

I’m transmasculine, ambiamorous and a termcollector. The terms I’m comfortable with being open with on the internet are; queer, angled aroace, ambiamorous, termcollector, transmasculine, and gendervast. This would be the part where I say “among other things” but this is the best I can do to not make things too long. My pronouns are he/they/it/xe/vir/rat. I’m a satanist that’s into Greek and Norse Mythology.

The first name I have given myself is Ellis. Before anyone asks, yes, I named myself after the Left 4 Dead 2 character. In my defense, Ellis has always been my comfort character and to me, it made sense to name myself after him. As for the middle name I gave myself, it’s Ryan.

Nicknames I’ll accept are Eli, Ray, and Rye. I also want to stress that the nickname “Shrimpy” can only be used by my friends. I only want my friends to call me Shrimpy because; for one thing I cannot confirm that I’ll always be shorter/smaller than the unknown person on the other side of the screen, and for another thing, a friend of mine (I will not be saying any names privacy reasons especially since I don’t know if he changed his name again or not) had given me the nickname Shrimpy (also nicknaming me Shrimp) while he and I were leaving PE because he thought it was easier to remember than my dead name. I also figured that he gave me that nickname because I’m smaller than all my friends. (Given I’m 5’ and somewhere around 101-102 lbs whereas my friends are 5’2”-5’7” and weigh over 101 lbs.) Long story short: If we’re not irl friends, don’t call me shrimpy. Only my friends are allowed to do that.

Personality/Mental health wise, I’m an autistic introvert with ADHD, social anxiety and depression. I don’t really like talking to people, especially since talking feels weird. It doesn’t help that sometimes I stutter and sometimes I don’t make sense. It’s something that I found difficult about being social, and on top of that, I’ll either cross a boundary without realizing it or I’ll misinterpret something that the other person is saying. (Can safely say that I’m one of those people that needs the other person to be more specific when talking to me about anything, and I also need the other person to express their boundaries when it comes to certain topics.) Now, putting aside the fact that I’m socially inept, I can confidently say that I’ll be 2 years SH-free on August 3rd 2024.

My interests include: watching YouTube, writing, playing video games, sharks, alligators, greek and Norse mythology, horror movies, drawing, and horror games

My favourite YouTubers are: Markiplier, LaurenZSide, tuv, morbidforfun, iHasCupQuake, Mr. Nightmare, Life of Luxury, Luxury Dark

My favourite book series are: Keeper of the Lost Cities, The Unwanteds and Percy Jackson

My favourite video games are: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Skyrim, Cooking Champions, Terraria, Minecraft, Animal Crossing New Horizons, The Sims 3, The Sims 4, Stardew Valley, Battleblock Theater, and Sons of the Forest

My favourite colours are: Black, Red, Grey, Blue, Purple and Green

My favourite shows are: Bob’s Burgers, NCIS, Bones, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Futurama, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen, Hotel Hell, Psych, Invader Zim, Dark Shadows (yes, I’m referring to the original 1960s TV series), Mayans MC, Mama Named Me Shariff, King of the Hill, Mr Pickles and Master Chef

My favourite movies are: The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Renfield, Demoric, Smile and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Books of Blood, Marrowbone, A Quiet Place and Swindle

My favourite bands/artists are: Bad Omens, The Rolling Stones, OOMPH!, Angerfist, 3Oh!3, Simon Curtis, Adam Lambert, Sub Urban, Missio, Ghost, and Behemoth (This list also includes tuv but it’s already enough that I grouped him with my favourite YouTubers)

My favourite animals are a four-way tie between alligators, whale sharks, zebra sharks and leopard sharks

And lastly, my favourite holiday is Halloween

Okay, since this came out to be longer than I originally wanted it to be, that’s all the information I’m giving you.

DNI if you:

Are transphobic

Are bi/panphobic

Are Ace/aro/aphobic

Are proshipper/pro incest

Are a zoophile (furries are okay, people who think it’s okay to have shmecks with animals are not)

Are anti-abortion/pro-life

Support trump

Think xenogenders and neopronouns aren’t valid

Think that non-binary people aren’t real

Disrespect people that use it/its pronouns

Think that the US is a “Christian nation” (spoiler alert, no it’s not, it’s just where you’re FREE to be Christian--for the love of everything unholy do NOT tell me or anyone else to “repent”, your religion prohibits YOU, not us.)

Are a TERF

Think neopronouns are too confusing

Think xenogenders are too confusing (I don’t understand them myself but I’m not being an ass about it)

Think microlabels are too confusing or useless

Think words like “girl”, “bro”, and “dude” are gender neutral

Are racist

Are ableist

[hawkmothmoon]

Hey tumblr buddies! Any other Instagram peeps?

Instagram kinda sucks. I think I’ve been shadowbanned for a while and idk why because I never posted too often, didn’t use more than 3-10 tags (and they were relevant!), wasn’t using popular tags that get spammed, etc.

And now they got rid of RECENT tags and only show TOP and TOP RECENT which sucks for artists and creators. I’m only a hobbyist but holy moly I’m angry for artists and creators who rely on discovery to find clients and new audiences who got screwed by this IG update (and Twitter and the general shittiness of platforms for artists).

Tumblr artists who are also on IG, do you struggle with the platform? I’ve been on IG forever and still like it a lot but damn it’s hard to find new artists and cool stuff.

[fallinginreversefanblog]

Ronnie Radke banned from TikTok!!!

On this day of 7/29/2023 Ronnie Radke's TikTok accound was banned, contect wiped off and Ronnie himself declassify to "user".

Fans instantly started a petition to TikTok in order to "free" Ronnie from ban , "release" his account with videos and make them available again.

YOU CAN SIGN THE PETITION HERE :

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS after you signed! It has to be validated!

Another option seems to be writing a letter to TikTok and detaling the problem, marking the maltreatment of Ronnie's and demanding his unban. I wouldn't wish being the costumer service of TikTok today...

A TikTok/YouTube video was also released to promote the petition.

Later during the day Ronnie himself appeared on IG and Twitter and confirmed the TikTok ban. Someone dragged his attention on missing him from the search field of Twitter, and he immediately found out that his Twitter account is also shadowbanned.

Via Ronnie's Instagram stories

That's for the free speech.

Comrades from the music scene noticed and stood by Ronnie, making an opinion on the case.

Finally Ronnie made a live video on Instagram, but wasn't talking about the bannings, only a few words after he had detalied the Sacramento/CA show that was oncoming tonight.

Via Twitter

UPDATE!

A brief summary has been posted on YouTube by RockFeed news. Watch, it's quite fair and detailed about the subject.

[lonestardust]

I've posted over one thousand posts on my instagram stories since the beginning of october and I'm almost fully shadowbanned now so I'm gonna chill here for a while until I'm able to be visible again so i could carry on with updating 🫠

[first-digi-add]

Instagram Updates Account Status with a New Take on 'Shadowbans'

When a social network becomes not only a place to socialize but also sometimes the main source of income, profile access restrictions can seriously spoil the statistics. Read our blog if you want to know if your account is blocked and how to remove the ban without serious losses. A hidden ban (also called a stealth ban or ghost ban) is a term often used to describe when a social media company limits the organic scope of a user’s account. To Read more blogs visit site https://firstdigiadd.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/instagram-updates-account-status-with-a-new-take-on-shadowbans/

[penguinsayswhat]

Okay number one is stop trying to be twitter or instagram. That's what's going to keep the core user base here, most of us are here because we don't want datamining algorithms and typical internet influencers, which should be apparent by the abject failure of tumblr live.

Secondly ya'll need to make this site/app functional for the current level of traffic it has before you start trying to grow. In all the years I've been here there has only briefly ever been a decent search function, and that got nerfed by a still totally useless update that most users x-kit away. If you want this to be a growing, functional website you shouldn' t need third party add-ins to do core features.

Even those third party features that tumblr has added in recent years are still poor in comparison to the open access versions of them. For example, tumblr's tagging system puts a giant banner saying a post has been blocked when it's been tagged with something you've filtered. There is no option to just actually hide that content. Which is annoying at best, and triggering at worst. Every third party app I've previously used for this function has let you just hide that post entirely if that's what you want. Of course on the other hand, the tumblr filter system is so bad that sometimes filtering out a character means it will filter out that entire series, regardless if that character has anything to do with that post. Again, not an issue I've had with third party apps.

Thirdly, make up your damn mind about the porn/sexual content/nudity ban. The rules of the internet have changed significantly since this site started, and I appreciate that. But going from no rules, to strict rules, to ehhhhhhh maybe we'll allow it as long as no one reports it??? does no one any favors. Combine that with the porn bots that were allowed to run rampant and were obviously, blatantly connected to the launch of tumblr live, and its incredibly insulting to the adult creators who were impacted by the initial ban and all of the SFW accounts that got banned/shadowbanned in the crossfire of an algorithm that still regularly flags family friendly content as sexually explicit.

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up. 

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant. 

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are. 

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds. 

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs. 

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads. 

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.  

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.  

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.  

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages. 

Test what the right daily push notification limit is. 

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users. 

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

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Reddit experienced serious technical problems for two consecutive days - Wednesday and Thursday, which made it difficult for users worldwide to access the site. This is happening as Google rolls out its November 2024 Core update and webmasters hope for an end to the sitewide classifier that shadowbanned websites from appearing on Google search following the release of the Helpful Content Update (HCU) on September 2023. The first outage started around 10 AM ET on Wednesday and impacted both mobile app and website users. To show that many people were affected by these disruptions, over 50,000 individuals reported the issues they were experiencing on DownDetector, a site that tracks outages such as this. Though these events occurred within the same period, there is no evidence to support that the Reddit downtime was a result of the ongoing Google Core Update.Tom's Guide reported that Reddit was aware of the issues and was actively working to fix them. Reddit explained that the recent outages were caused by a problem in a new update they had rolled out. Even after taking steps to fix the issue, many users still experienced slow performance and occasional downtime. People reported having problems loading pages and comments, and some even encountered an error message. However, by Thursday, Reddit shared that they had implemented a solution, and things were slowly getting back to normal for users.A spokesperson from Reddit told CBS News, "There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we're ramping back up." However, the company has not shared when users can expect everything to be fully stable again. However, while Reddit downtime persists, website owners are having a smirk of retribution. Following the HCU that wiped out thousands of independent small websites and bloggers from Google search, many SEOs and webmasters noted that traffic to Reddit grew astronomically. Google has been accused of favoring Reddit to rank high on its search after both companies entered a partnership that saw the Aphabet Inc. subsidiary pay the social media company $60m to allow it to train its AI using its user's posts. Many alleged that it only made sense for Google to rank Reddit posts higher in SERPs so they can have more data or, it could be Reddit's bargain for the collaboration. Sistrix's graph below shows a very huge leap in Reddit's traffic which has continued upward to date since Google first released its HCU in September 2023. Insights showed that the forum and social network currently ranks as the 3rd most visible website in the United States, from its 78th position last year. Traffic stat of Reddit following Google's HCU amid AI partnership (Graph Credit: Sistrix) Other social media giants and forums such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora, Instagram, etc were also reported to have enjoyed huge traffic boosts by dominating search first pages for many queries that previously never ranked for. Massive complaints and negative feedback have dominated the comment section of posts by Google Search Central on Twitter, with site owners berating not just the HCU sitewide shadowban, but Google's AI - Gemini, which now occupies the top section of search pages and instantly gives answers to users from content gotten from websites. The instant and satisfactory feedback most often leaves the searcher with no further need to visit any website. This effectively leads to reduced traffic for sites and loss in income - spiking the case on Google for its illegal monopoly. These many resentments against Google are reflected in webmasters being overly interested in news of lawsuits on the search engine for breaking antitrust laws and also looking forward to the breakdown of the number one search engine by the US DOJ. Read the full article

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“Isra-helli Terrorist, Nazi, Fascist, Genocidal, God’s Cursed, Fucked-up and Illegal Occupier 🐖 Prime Minister Benjamin Satan-Yahu” has said he is cancelling a high-level delegation to Washington after the US refrained from vetoing a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In a statement, the prime minister's office said that the decision was "a clear retreat from the consistent US position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war", and one that "gives Hamas hope that international pressure will allow them to get a ceasefire without releasing our hostages".

- An Instagram update automatically limiting the amount of political content that shows up in users' feeds has sparked a wave of discontent from social media users and activists, including pro-Palestine activists who accuse the platform of censorship.

A setting for "political content" was added to the app, apparently without notifying users of the change. The setting is toggled to "limit" by default, though users can manually change this to "don't limit.

The change affects posts "likely to mention governments, elections, or social topics that affect a large group of people and/or society at large," according to a guidance note.

Users accusing Instagram of active censorship expressed outrage, with many surprised after noticing the newly imposed limitations on their feed.

One user stated: "They want us to post and engage with images of mountains, holidays, beautiful portraits, flowers and all. They think we have too much of Palestine, Congo, migrant, sovereignty, indigenous movement, environmental justice and racism related content going around."

Since the start of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, social media posts by Palestinian journalists and citizens on the ground have become key sources of information, as the Israeli government has banned international media from entering the strip.

In December, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report that Meta, which runs Instagram and Facebook, is systematically censoring content about Palestine.

"Our goal is to preserve the ability for people to choose to interact with political content, while respecting each person's appetite for it," Instagram chief Adam Mosseri wrote in February.

Yet many social media users accused Instagram of "shadowbanning," and limiting political discourse in a year when pivotal elections are being held in the US and other countries, impacting political outreach attempting to inform voters.

One user questioned: "Are Palestinians political? Who makes these decisions? Who benefits and who faces the consequences?

"During an election year, during a humanitarian crisis, during a censorship crisis...weird!"

The UN Security Council on Monday passed a resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza during Ramadan and the unconditional release of captives held in the embattled enclave.

The text, according to the version seen by AFP on Sunday evening, "demands an immediate ceasefire" for the ongoing Muslim holy month of Ramadan, "leading to a permanent sustainable ceasefire".

The resolution, brought forth by Algeria, also "demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages" as well as "the lifting of all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale."

The resolution passed by a vote of 14 to 1, with the US abstaining, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threat to cancel a visit of senior Israeli officials to Washington if the US failed to veto the resolution.

The vote came as Washington prepared to receive two separate Israeli delegations.

Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, is set to arrive in Washington on Monday for several meetings with senior US officials, including Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser.

Separately, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a key Netanyahu confidant were scheduled to arrive in Washington early this week to hear American counter-proposals for a full-scale ground offensive on Rafah, the southern Gaza border city where about 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.

The Hanegbi and Dermer delegation was scheduled after a call between Biden and Netanyahu, where Biden told his Israeli counterpart that an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah would be a "mistake."

The US decision to abstain from the UN vote marks weeks of back-and-forth criticism between Israel and the Biden administration. Since December, Biden and senior US officials have been challenging Israel over its conduct in the war, but Monday's vote marks the US's most formal criticism.