Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

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Post by Graffur » Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 7:49 PM UTC

I feel sorry for your wife. I know a lot of people put a lot of time into their Instagram accounts and sometimes it may contain the only version of photos/stories that exist. It's easily dismiss-able by posters here who don't care about IG but I bet your wife feels pretty bad.

Unfortunately I can't help. Thanks for posting though.. it is a lesson for all of us. Backups and alternatives are important!

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

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Post by sillysaurusx » Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

thewhitetulip wrote: post #16

sillysaurusx wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary. I think people who don’t actually use Twitter are unaware just how magical DMs can be.

Or how much companies and govt workers care about twitter! A friend ordered a moto phone from an ecommerce site that's now as good as shut down in India Moto said phone was duplicate or something so they can't do repair site said phone was sold 1yr ago we can't redund or replace. Issue is there was no IMEI number inside the phone. And the inly way of knowing it was to open the phone in a moto store I tweeted cust sup…

Case in point: https://twitter.com/austen/status/1494763916466872323?s=21

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

#23

Post by MikeAshley178 » Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

They don't care. Honestly they are fighting a massive bot/spam problem. A good chance 90% of your wifes "followers" were bots. Explain this to her and go live your best life.

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

#24

Post by GoodbyeMrChips » Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 9:46 PM UTC

> Are there any Metamates

I can't be the only one who laughed at this!

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

#25

Post by giantg2 » Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 10:33 PM UTC

This is an extremely biased take based on my own opinion, but... maybe it's better to just pretend they did you guys a favor and stop using IG?

Re: Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?

#26

Post by gcheong » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC

merlinscholz wrote: post #18

Since when is this site a tech support forum?

Since the big tech companies have been horrendous at customer service and there are often people on here who work at them who can actually help. So basically from the time this site began.