Hola, world. We’re up, and so far it’s been a relatively smooth morning. Podrick let me sleep, only coming up to the bed around 7am. I pulled the weighted blanket up to my chin to protect my neck from his front paws and dozed as he sucked my thumb. While I took a pic of it, we’re not acknowledging the dusting of wet snow on the steps.
Thursday was fucking long. Shawshank had work, and I wasted no time setting things up in the bedroom for my “shift”. I feel like the black light is fun, but it really only works if I have something that’s glowing. Shawshank brought home a couple of highlighters from work this week, and I pulled them out for some fun. I ended up with both hands marked up and looking like x-rays, as well as my traditional tiddystars. Eventually, I had to put the marker somewhere out of sight, lest I end up covered in fluorescent ink up to my shoulders. I finished the night with about $36.
A lot of creators are having issues with Instagram either lowering their account visibility or outright banning them. Almost every creator uses some sort of free site to link customers to all of their available pages, usually something like beacons or linktree. First, it seemed like Meta wouldn’t show their posts if they used any of the popular link pages, and a few clones and new domains popped up in response. Then, the theory was quickly amended: while it might’ve been the URL, more than likely it was the links on the pages, which needed to be flagged as NSFW. They don’t like this, because it adds extra clicks in the “funnel”, and doesn’t convert to subscribers as well. Buyers don’t want to be sent on wild goose chases to maybe see a tit.
Currently, it seems like linking any account on the popular link pages will flag an Instagram account. Creators were trying to save their main accounts by linking to throwaway accounts that have their link, but now even linking to a “questionable” account will flag the main account. A couple have said they’ve switched to paying for the pro versions of link sites and bringing their own domain, but at least one creator has said their Instagram was still flagged. Personally, I’m convinced that Meta is basically flagging it at a host-level, not the domain itself.
Someone on Reddit recently asked how people are keeping links in their main accounts and not being banned. It’s not affecting me; my own domain is hosted on my own space. On top of that, I use custom redirect URLs that both cloak the links and track clicks. Naturally, I received a DM from someone asking me to explain what I meant. Normally, I’m willing to explain something more in depth if someone reaches out for more detail, but in this case, I ignored the request. My tech support days are long over. I do not have the patience to explain domains and hosts to someone who refers to everything as an app, nor do I have the ability to be polite about it.
I’m in the mood for clown stuff today, but I’m waffling about it. My nose is a little stuffy, and I’m still debating whether or not I want to risk ruining my clown makeup if I’m sniffling. We haven’t even showered yet, I have plenty of time to decide.
