I have ~280 followers on the Instagram with reasonable engagement on my photos[1] and -maybe- 10 on the Fediverse with basically zero engagement.
People won't stop using the proprietary apps until there's a decent amount of the people they know on the alternatives (which, to be fair, is definitely burgeoning this week.)
[1] A fair few from a hashtag which, correct me if I'm wrong, don't really work the same way on the Fediverse - you can't just follow #donkeys and get an aggregation of posts with that hashtag; only the ones from a particular server.
me: have you ever tried X? it's an alternative for Y
them: isn't that for racists or drug dealers or something?
Sometimes though, it's true. I remember experimenting with Freenet a long time ago and discovering it was being heavily used for CSAM. I've never uninstalled something so fast.
Normal people take such a beating, and just keep on trucking. It's truly fascinating.
I have had a domain name stolen by a registrar and I have had web hostings suspended.
It's literally impossible for an individual to not be dependant on MANY 3rd party for making your website accessible online.
Depends on your expectations. I'm aware that I can lose the access to my domain, server host or DNS. Personally, I see those chances lower than losing access to Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Google. But even if I do lose my own website, I can register a new domain, restore my VPS backup and have my website back online. That's not something that is usually possible after Big Tech bans you. Also, POSSE encourages you to syndicate your content, so I have multiple copies of the same content, making it more resilient. If both my social media and my website get banned at the same time, then losing my published writing and photography content will probably be the least of my problems.
Well, that sounds odd. I feel like having a domain name "stolen" when you have an up-to-date payment for a domain would be grounds for litigation, unlike an instagram account getting suspended. Likewise with web-hosting: If you pay for it, I feel there would be more avenues for arbitration.
Of course nothing is 100%, but the abstraction certainly helps.
In seriousness though, it's been much less likely historically for registrars to take sites down than for social media to ban users.
EDIT: found the photo my mom took of the ban screen https://i.imgur.com/VeA3Nz2.png
EDIT: found the photo my mom took of the ban screen https://i.imgur.com/VeA3Nz2.png
https://reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/yibnws/does_this_nor...
And Instagram support on twitter responded https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/158708556379401830...
I haven’t posted anything to Instagram in several years, but I do follow a few dozen accounts of friends and of people producing content of interest to me. I thought it strange that Instagram’s AI would suspend my account for such innocuous behavior—I even click on ads occasionally—but there seems to have been a wider glitch.
What is that? Is it supposed to be a caricature and I'm just not getting the joke?
Of course it's there to insult the reader's intelligence. The middle class version is the Daily Mail. Large parts of the British press are trash. Don't look up the Daily Sport, your head will explode (and it's probably NSFW, despite still being on some petrol station newsstands)
This sounds like the app was in a crash-loop. If it was getting far enough to start authorization, it would generate traffic indistinguishable from a hack attempt. An automated circuit-breaker there is probably best-practice.
There are a lot of places where automated "moderation" is a terrible idea but it looks to me (somebody who is generally anti-Meta and more generally anti-social-media) like a good circuit-breaker doing its job.
Social media accounts are not your own. They’re leased to you at the pleasure of the bots and “machine learning” algorithms that determine what’s appropriate (for their owners to make more money) and what’s not.
A few more incidents like this is all we need to bid good riddance to this platform that treats its users with so much disdain.
there’s no “your account has been suspended” email. the account appears as deleted to other users, throws a connection error when you try to log in on mobile and just hangs when you log in through a browser. this isn’t normal suspension behaviour
https://twitter.com/search?q=instagram%20account&src=typed_q...
His profile comes up with 'User not found' when I checked it. Very strange.
Hopefully now that it's a more widespread issue I have a chance of getting my account back so I can finally delete it and then never use a Meta product ever again.
Reddit and Twitter are full of similar reports.
