Instagram Tests New Comment ‘Limits’ To Help Reduce the Impact of Targeted Abuse by Groups

Instagram is rolling out a new option to combat on-platform abuse, this time focused on limiting actions from groups of users, as opposed to muting or restricting individual profiles.

Some Instagram users are now seeing a new ‘Limits’ option within their Privacy settings, which enables you to temporarily limit unwanted comments and messages from selected groups.

Instagram says that it will recommend groups of accounts that you may want to limit, based on detected activity, which will then enable users to hide interactions from these users unless they manually choose to see them.

You can specifically choose to limit interactions from accounts that don’t follow you, or new followers, which could help to reduce the impact of those looking to join a pile-on, as a result of you being ‘cancelled’ or similar.

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