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How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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post #2

This is also why creating a regular account is so difficult on all the social networks. You sign up and it is instantly banned and you have to go through a whole review and approval process just to use it. Incredibly user and company hostile.

This is also why old accounts have value.

A new account doing anything unusual looks suspicious immediately. A 10yo account with normal history and real usage would probably be much less likely to get banned for the same behaviour.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

#32

A spam post here about how to spam Instagram. This is what the internet is now.

How is it a spam post?

It is just an amateur blog post about a small automation experiment. I am not selling anything or promoting a tool.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

#33
post #17

what if i were purely interested in archiving local community posts? does anyone have experience on scraping without getting banned? i have no interest in juicing engagement, purely from a "20 years from now it'll be cool to know this existed at all" aspect.

I would guess that low-volume scraping is probably much less likely to cause problems.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

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I tried all sorts of automation in the past and always get banned at the end. Not worth it. Use AI or whatever to generate your social media content but always post it manually for best engagement and not getting banned

>Not worth it.

most of "engagement" on every big platform has always been bot activity, which strongly suggests that all their measures can be countered.

Re: How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)

#35

A spam post here about how to spam Instagram. This is what the internet is now.

How is it a spam post? It is just an amateur blog post about a small automation experiment. I am not selling anything or promoting a tool.

You have no activity here that isn't self-promotion.
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