If you use Instagram, you know that it’s not just a social network based on sharing photos or videos with followers. More and more, Instagram is becoming a video live streaming platform. This function is called ” Instagram Live “. And as with YouTube or Facebook, it allows to broadcast a live video to thousands of people (tens or hundreds of thousands) at the same time.
The relevance of “Live” is twofold. Before anything else, live video is a snapshot : fast, efficient. Then it offers a wayinteraction with subscribers. They can ask questions or write comments on the live broadcast. And the user can reply during the video. Reaction and interaction: This is what makes live videos the best. We’ve made a few on our YouTube channel. And there were good times each time.
Instagram: soon moderators will filter comments during live videos
However, as with forums or comments, sometimes you have to face it. malicious comments (and not just negative). For this reason, there is a need for a “gendarme” on duty. In Instagram, this functionality is not yet possible. But it should be soon. Italian developer and source code expert Alessandro Paluzzi has discovered traces of a future moderation function in the bowels of Instagram’s latest version.
This feature will allow an Instagram user who wants to broadcast a live video to appoint a moderator from among other Instagram users. It can only be a user watching the live video. And can only be one. The moderator will be able to manage sent messages and activate various social features (answers, comments) of the live broadcast.
It is not said whether the moderator can also moderate live participants: ban the author of malicious comments, accept requests from non-subscribers, etc. But this function will certainly have a positive effect. reduce the number of hate messages in the same way as the filter that makes it possible to hide offensive private messages posted on the social network, or the anti-harassment alert pop-ups that appear in the event of an insult.
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