r/socialmedia

I’m trying to build a social media following for my new app that I’m launching. It’s pretty important that the app has a large user base right away or people may delete the app. In every post I use hashtags such as #onlinedating and #profilereview. I’ll usually also put the app name #coachcupid and whatever other hashtags seem relevant to the post. These don’t seem to be very effective in growing views or engagement. I’m not sure if it’s because of the hashtags I’m using or if hashtags themselves are useless. A friend recently told me the algorithm cares more about the keywords in your caption rather than the hashtags. Is this true?

For reference, I’m launching an app to help give real anonymous feedback to online dating profiles to provide transparency to people on the apps.

Recently I’ve seen a number of people on Instagram with usernames that are rare and are very short. I’d expect these to be inactive but clearly now. How do people obtain these?

Hi Guys! im trying to develop my own social media for the old school way, no endless scroll/AI slop/Endless bullshit feeds, only friends and public discourse, but the problem is i have no idea what im doing(in terms of marketing it), do any one of you have any advice? i have no idea if to make it nieche or a global platform contender(yeah right).

the site is made for people who like the old school style of social media(like myspace but modernized), its very user experice focused, it has chats, forums, bulleting, posts(or as i like to call em blurps) and many more!, still developing the platform to fit all user needs.

im extremely open to suggestions, i need any piece of advice/direction anyone can give me, im honestly just very excieted to make things, dont be shy to give me your feedback!

the site is https://socialorbitplus.com

IMPORTANT: im still having a hard time filtering all the bad actors, so if you see offensive matterial or harmful posts dont worry im working on a solid moderation functionality!!

Hi everyone, I need some advice.

On 19 August 2026, Facebook restricted my profile and suspended Recommendations and Monetisation.

The reason shown is “Inauthentic engagement.”

Facebook says its technology detected behaviour that might indicate inauthentic engagement. It also says that my profile will not be recommended to new people, I can't earn from my content, and the restriction is currently scheduled to end on 17 November 2026.

However, there is something confusing about this.

My profile was not actually monetized. I only had Facebook Stars available. I had not enabled/received normal content monetization earnings.

I have also never received a Community Guidelines violation or copyright strike on my posts. I have never intentionally used bots, fake likes, fake followers, paid engagement, or any service to artificially increase engagement.

Before this restriction, my dashboard showed around 17M views, 1.4M engagement and 1,961 net followers in the last 28 days.

Now Facebook is saying that monetisation and recommendations are suspended because of inauthentic engagement.

I have a Review button available.

Has anyone experienced this exact restriction?

What is the best way to get this fixed?

1. Should I submit the review immediately?

2. Can this restriction be removed before 17 November?

3. Has anyone successfully recovered Recommendations after an “inauthentic engagement” restriction?

4. Should I stop posting or change anything on my account while the review is pending?

I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has dealt with this before.

Hi! I’m managing a Facebook Page and I’m trying to find out which days and times our audience is most active, so I can determine the best times to publish content.

Where can I find this information in the current Facebook/Meta Business Suite interface? 

Thanks!

I have a Facebook page which is all about mobile development and coding tips and tricks, but I'm not seeing any progress, any post I make literally gets no engagement and just a hand full of views, it's really discouraging and I was hoping to gain some Intel on how I can grow my audience

I have noticed that a person is most likely to like and follow an account that already has thousands of followers or a video with millions of likes, but when they see a video with zero or 10 likes, they will mostly just swipe without even watching it for 3 seconds, so my question is how to you gain those followers if nobody is giving your content a chance?

Hi!!

I built and run a little free pantry in Alexandria VA. Previously I had personal Facebook and Instagram pages but now have gotten into pages for my pantry. Also built a TikTok. I have no real idea what I’m doing but if anyone has thoughts on what they’d like to see for an account like that let me know!

I had a follower help and build a flyer on canva, building a series called pantry to plate to make bagged dinners with just shelf stable items, but I wouldn’t say I’m consistent on anything. It’s only been a couple months although I do post daily on IG at least!

Am trying to have an audience who finds my page when they need a resource but also keep followers who drop off items in the pantry or send over items.

Really appreciate any thoughts, tips, suggestions etc!

Hi everyone,

I run an Instagram page focused on personal finance, career growth, mindset and helping lower/middle-class working people. I currently have around 11K followers.

I’ve created a PDF digital product that I want to sell to my audience.

I’m based in Tamil Nadu, India, and I’m looking for the simplest setup:

Instagram → One link → UPI payment (GPay/PhonePe) → Automatic PDF download

I don’t want to manually verify payments and send the PDF through WhatsApp

What platform/service are Indian creators currently using for this?

Ideally, I’m looking for:

Free or very low cost
UPI payments
Automatic PDF delivery after payment
One link that I can put in my Instagram bio
No website/coding required
Suitable for an individual creator in India

I’ve seen people mention different platforms, but I’d really appreciate recommendations from people who are actually using them in India.

Thanks! 🙏

I run a small football trivia site and post short clips to TikTok and Instagram through Buffer. On one day a few weeks back I posted 4 videos in a tight window. Views dropped noticeably right after and still haven't recovered to where they were. Has anyone seen this specific pattern, multiple posts same day through a scheduling API followed by a sustained drop, not just a one day dip? Trying to work out if that's a documented spam signal or if I'm pattern matching on noise. Also curious whether switching to native posting instead of a scheduler ever measurably changed anyone's numbers.

saving tiktoks for client edit but the watermark makes them unusable for anything. sites i tried either still leave it on or just dont work. whats a clean tiktok downloader ?

I used to have a good TikTok following up about 30,000 followers to have some personal issues, I had to stop. Recently I’ve decided to start up again. I dipped to 23,000 followers after I left/stopped, and that’s where I’m starting from.

I am making an effort to post 2 to 3 times a day and am checking my insights to make sure I keep up-to-date on that information. I am averaging 300 views per video right now. I have only been back for a week, and I know that it will not blow up overnight.

My question is: does anyone have any advice or has experience with doing this? Any advice or even a timeline? Having my TikTok channel is very beneficial for my job, so I very much want to try and make it work because it’s nice that I already have a large following.

I do have a secondary throw away account with very little followers that i could technically start up with but it has a lot of crap that has nothing to do with my niche.

I have a bunch of music and sports hobbies . Instead of spamming my personal account with videos of these hobbies , I created a separate account for each. For example I made one to just post my guitar videos ( around one a day or two ). Idea is that friend who care about my guitar can follow it. Those that don't care, will never see my guitar videos.

But using this guitar account should I be following the same friends back? Or just follow other guitar related accounts?

i have 70k followers and average 20-50k views per video and suddenly my views dropped drastically, i can barely get 10k views and my most recent one is at 1k views after a day.

people have been commenting that tiktok isn’t showing them my videos so im really concerned bc my videos always got pushed onto the for you page in the first 5 minutes.

this is truly annoying, idk what to do and im genuinely stressing bc i’ve been continuing posting like usual and my videos are still doing bad and my comments dropped by 80%.

can anyone give me advice?

edit: to add, as soon as i hit 70k followers my views dropped. i’m still gaining followers from my old videos still getting pushed out but no recent videos going viral

linkedin somehow became a worse instagram than instagram itself.

at least on instagram you know what kind of shit youre signing up for. people post whatever they post, you follow them if you want, if not you just go somewhere else.

linkedin is different. the shit is everywhere and after some time it starts getting into your head.

you see some guy getting 700 likes on every post and you think f-ck, maybe this guy knows something i dont.

then you check his work. then his cases. then his website. and youre like… what the f-ck is going on here? it is a classic successfull success kind of shit, but in a "serious community wit serious faces.

then you discover all these the same people commenting on each others posts, the yellow profile pictures, the same formulas spreading everywhere.

“what x taught me about y” “i failed. heres what i learned” “nobody tells you this about leadership”

at first you laugh at it. then 3 months pass. 4 months. 5. and one day you catch yourself writing exactly the same f-cking post.

of course you explain it to yourself. mine is different. mine has an actual idea. mine is deeper. im just using the format because apparently the format works.

but thats bullshit too! you accepted the rules of the game. you surrendered.

has linkedin done this to you too or did you somehow manage not to become one of them?

I am in the early stages of starting a little business with my target customer being senior adults (age 60+). Besides Facebook, is there a social media site that senior adults use as I’d like to attract and market to potential customers. Thanks in advance!

Isn’t your FYP catered to your own algorithm? If I searched “day in the life vlog” and sorted by top videos, I’d probably get totally different results than my friend would searching the same thing. So how can anyone claim something is “performing” or “dying” in a way that’s actually true beyond their own feed?

And if it is mostly personal interpretation how do you filter who/what you’re even looking at? Random accounts? High engagement only? How many creators would you need to study before a pattern actually means something vs. just being what you personally happened to see?

I want to eventually teach this stuff myself, but I don’t trust my own read on things enough to feel confident doing that. How do people build that confidence? Is there an actual method?

If you’re going to comment to start managing my own account, save your breath. I already am. I want to know how to STUDY what’s working, and what’s not. There are obviously the basics, what every creator needs to thrive like value. But when it comes to other not so obvious things like trends. Editing styles. Pacing. What people are truly watching and what people are tired of, how do you figure this out?

Do you read comment sections? How much? There’s so much to this world I have a hard time understanding how much you’d need to consume to make a statement about what’s “working”

Julia broome is who I’m interested in being similar to

i manage social posts for a small skincare brand selling in a few countries. we reuse the same basic product video, but each language version turns into its own mini project.

translate the script. record another voice. adjust the mouth movement. redo the subtitles. discover the timing is off. repeat.

the japanese version also ends up feeling slightly different from the spanish one even though they are meant to be the same ad. is there a tool that can handle the languages, lip sync, and subtitles together?

As a social media manager, there are many platforms like YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and more.

How do you keep track on daily basis what is happening in each of the platforms.

Are there tools to do that ?