Who your account follows and interacts with matters. If you’re trying to grow steadily and avoid cluttering your audience with random or irrelevant users, it’s worth having some control over who stays and who gets filtered out.

Kicksta’s Whitelist and Blacklist features let you hold onto the connections you want to keep and skip over the ones that don’t make sense for your account.

Here's a short breakdown of how Whitelist and Blacklist features work!

Blacklist: Avoiding users that don’t fit

The Blacklist is your first line of defense against low-quality growth.

It tells Kicksta to completely avoid specific users, such as spam or fake accounts, direct competitors, or simply users that don’t match your ideal audience

Once someone is on your Blacklist, Kicksta will stop engaging with them entirely.

• This won’t undo any previous actions, but no new actions will take place.

• You can update the Blacklist at any time by adding or removing users in your dashboard.

Using the Blacklist helps ensure that your growth stays clean, strategic, and relevant to your goals. It’s a simple but powerful way to avoid wasting your reach on the wrong users.

Whitelist: Keeping the key connections

The Whitelist, on the other hand, is designed to make sure Kicksta doesn’t unfollow anyone you care about, people like close friends, collaborators, or creators you regularly engage and want to keep up with.

Here’s what to keep in mind:

• Anyone you followed before connecting your Instagram account is automatically added to your whitelist.

• You can add or remove people from the list anytime.

• If you manually follow a new account after starting with Kicksta, it’s a good idea to add them to your Whitelist, too. That way, they’re never caught up in the unfollow process.

In Conclusion:

These two features give you more control over how your account engages on Instagram, helping you stay focused on real, relevant growth instead of attracting the wrong crowd.

Checking in on your lists every now and then, whether to clean things up or make small tweaks, can go a long way in keeping your audience aligned with your goals and making sure important connections don’t get lost in the process.