Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US

Re:Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US by dheera on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:57PM (#21496310)

I really wish Instagram had a proper "share" feature. The current state of sharing is these idiotic feature accounts stealing work from artists without paying them, reposting them with almost zero credit to the artist (they typically hide the artist credit under rows of single "." or "---" so that the credits are pushed down beyond the "..." button), and Instagram promoting the feature account's post to peoples' discover pages instead of the original artist's post, resulting in tte artist getting very little exposure. It would be much better if it presented itself as:

Artist's name [Follow button]

reposted by (feature account name)

[picture]

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Re:Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US by sschueller on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:04AM (#21497502)

I would be more worried about giving all your rights to Instagram or whom ever you upload to.

Doesn't Ring get all rights as soon as you share some of your security footage and the use that in their ads?

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Re:Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US by antigirl on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:16AM (#21496515)

You can already repost and it credits the original artist automatically like tumblr, this is available for posts and stories.

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Re:Instagram to test hiding like counts in the US by dheera on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:42PM (#21499433)

Didn't know there was such a feature, but most "influencer" feature accounts don't do that, they download and repost the image, and write captions designed to push credits to the bottom, like:

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s,

YOU OWN THE NIGHT!!! AWESOME PICTURE! [clap] [clap] [clap]

-------------------------------

photographer: @artist_username

And the problem? Instagram's ranking algorithm promotes these idiots instead of @artist_username, and nobody ever sees who @artist_username is because it collapses the comment to the first 2 lines. It's really like a "congratulations but f-you", and I wish they'd crack down on this.

Artists often don't even get reach beyond their followers at all -- the influencer feature accounts fill up peoples' discover pages. Artists continue to fall for the feature accounts, trying to get featured for exposure (that they don't actually get).

It would be much better if Instagram recognized good artist content and promoted it directly, avoiding this whole reposting nonsense. The easiest way would be

0. See how the artist content does in their own personal follower network

1. If it does well reaction/like-wise, increase the number of non-followers that see it that have similar hashtag interests

2. If it continues to do well, continue to broaden the set of people that see it.

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