on what's happening.- nadirah June 1, 2020 You know what would be helpful right now? if made it possible to swipe up with less than 10k followers so people can go directly resources, videos, audio, books, etc.
Make the feature universal!!- Chloe Bryan June 3, 2020 Hello if we can swipe up on a lifestyle influencer posting THE TRUTH ABOUT BIDETS (as I HAVE in the PAST) everyone should be able to swipe up on critical organizing resources. Universal swipe up enables this accessibility. A key to getting people to take any action online is to make the process as easy as possible. Links to powerful articles by black writers.
Links to anti-racism educational materials. Links to information about protests and marches. Swipe up has never been more useful for good. The platform should take this moment to grant access to all of its users. Which is to say swipe up is not a thing a diverse group of everyday users have access to. That last group is, notably, overwhelmingly white. This means that the group of people who have access to the swipe up feature is limited largely to celebrities, news outlets, and influencers. ( This is not a new argument when it comes to ways social platforms could make themselves safer, but don’t.) The 10,000 follower mark is also a seemingly random benchmark to designate what a so-called significant following looks like. Instagram could elect to verify every account, but it chooses not to. Being verified really just means that Instagram has confirmed you are who you say you are. This feature is currently only available to verified users and accounts with over 10,000 followers. If a user links something to a story slide, the viewer can swipe up from the bottom and be directed to that user’s designated link. On Instagram, “swipe up” means your account has been deemed worthy of having the tool that allows users to add links to their Instagram Stories. All I had to do was fill in the blanks for my name and my borough of residence and hit send. Not because I wrote it, but because Ajani Russell, an artist and star of Betty on HBO, used her platform to share a link in an Instagram Story that auto-populated the email when I swiped up on it. The email – a thoughtful three paragraphs – took me under a minute to send. I sent an email this afternoon to Scott Stringer, New York City’s comptroller, asking him to put pressure on Mayor Bill de Blasio to reallocate funds in the city’s budget away from the police and into programs that benefit New Yorkers.
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