Can you explain more ?
Do you mean 2 acc with auto liking on one ip?
There should be a setting on your bot, I know Mass Planner has it, that limits how many pictures from a single account your account will like.
So my one bot account will like one accounts picture, find another account, like one of its pictures, then find another account, etc, etc. This prevents your single bot account from liking every picture on a persons account that fit into the settings for your bot. This makes it so if you like 600 pictures a day, you are interacting with 600 different people in a day just from likes.
Why should it matter how you violate the TOS, manually or with bots? Why would instagram make any difference and favorize those who manually violate the rules? If you do the aggressive follow churn manually, that's equally as bad as if you were using bots. Bots are not the evil.
If instagram wants to penalize for aggressive follow churn, they would/should penalize everyone (manual and bot users) equally.
Actually the question in the thread title could be transformed into a statement, which makes a lot of sense. You violate the rules, in exchange because we're that cool, we don't outright ban you, we only make your life less enjoyable by limiting reach/not putting you on the explore page/do every kind of shady tricks to lower your engagement until you keep violating our TOS. If you cease the aggressive follow churn practices, you'll have another shot and we remove the limits from your account, so your engagement starts to grow again.
I'm not thinking in terms of being aggressive. If your following 1000 a day and unfollowing 1000 a day then yah, I wouldn't doubt they would penalize anyone doing that. Although that's not the norm, especially for manual, that would be SO much work like god damn.
But if your performing under 1000 total actions (likes/follows/unfollows) I don't see how they could penalize someone doing that manually. That is what small business owners do all the time, they are just trying to get their small business out there. This is the situation I have in mind, and I don't think Instagram would penalize for this, unless it was through botting. Since botting takes 0 effort once set up and creates fake engagement which they want to crack down on since it hurts them.
Cutting small businesses engagement makes them less likely to use Instagram or simply think its not a good platform to promote on. Since these small businesses are Instagrams actual customers then Instagram will want to keep them happy so that they buy paid ads when they see that Instagram works to generate engagement with their target audience. People running bot accounts like many of us on here they dont give a shit about because we aren't their customer, we are exploiting their platform for our own gains at their expense.
So since Instagram cant differentiate between a well set up bot, and a manual account(if they could all bots would be getting banned constantly). It wouldn't make sense for them to penalize all accounts performing lets say under 1000 action a day, this would simply hurt their business and I think that they are to smart for that. However aggressive accounts running 1000 follows a day and 1000 unfollows a day are very likely to be bots, since which of their actual customers would have the time and will power to do that day in and day out. So they would penalize all of these accounts heavily in the form of engagement cuts, phone verifications, ghosting and bans since they are just leeching off their business/platform.
They very well could be cutting engagement, I wont say for a fact that they aren't. But if they are, Instagrams shooting themselves in the foot.
Its been a long hard day and its late. Hopefully I got my thoughts on this across in a way that makes sense.
