Good luck. I temporarily disabled my Instagram account and can’t recover it. The process is supposed to be just login again, but it hangs because I had two factor Authentication enabled. My account is now in a limbo. There is no proper support channel for this problem. And the form they provid for help on the app just give an “invalid parameters” when trying to submit, but the funny part is it’s hidden behind the iPhone X notch, only found the error because I took a screenshot. Instagram always been like this? or is this sign of Facebook tighter grip on it?
Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
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Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#102They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
The Write.as guys have been working on a good alternative with their Snap.as service [0]. It's tied to the blogging side, but looks like it'll be another simple tool that doesn't pull the same signup-wall crap as Instagram.
[0] https://snap.as
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#103Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube. [1] https://pixelfed.org/ [2] https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Get your own website, so you'll have a place for those who just want to check you out without paywalls, loginwalls, any kind of walls.
Add https://fed.brid.gy/ & webmention support, so you'll be @your.domain@your.domain on activitypub (read: pixelfed, mastodon, gnusocial, whatever) so the "fediverse" can follow and interact with you.
Add h-feed markup for your website, so indieweb can follow and interact with you.
Keep RSS & Atom feeds, so anyone oldschool can follow you. I'd love to add keep pingback... but that is insanely spam-prone.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
What about Twitter? I just created an account with an email but after few minutes of clicking around it locked me out. I can only use it again if I give them my phone number, too -.- As if this wasn't enough of their invasive procedures my profile officially says "Account is blocked because of suspicious behavior". This is some advanced trickery to fool users into giving them more data than they intended to do when c…
I think Twitter does that for some email services, definitely saw that behaviour with ProtonMail and Tutanota, Gmail was safe to use then (a couple of years ago, when I wanted to create a secondary account).
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#105Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube. [1] https://pixelfed.org/ [2] https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Kay man, surely all my friends will be there
> Fan: Why don't you follow anyone on twitter?
> Eminem: Always be a leader not a follower.
https://twitter.com/emin3mquotez/status/415206423342366720
That aside, if not now, when? If not us, who? Someone has to start it. None of my friend were on FB when I joined it.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#106They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.
I have a browser extension which automatically removes any results from Pinterest in searches.
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#107Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube. [1] https://pixelfed.org/ [2] https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
What's a good Instagram alternative with ActivityPub support? And what's a good instance to join, since I don't necessarily want to self-host just to test it out?
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#108Support the federated alternative that is being built based on the same technology (ActivityPub) as Mastodon and Peertube. [1] https://pixelfed.org/ [2] https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Every time federation comes up, I always ask where the bridges are that allow "following" people on the non-federated sites (e.g. Twitter), and the answer is always vague and non-specific, suggesting that such bridges exist without any information about using them.
I'd love to see a switching guide for, say, Twitter, that specifically says "here's how to transparently follow people on Twitter, and here's how to have your posts show up on your old Twitter account". Or similarly, if you're switching from Instagram, how do you follow folks from Instagram and automatically post to Instagram?
Re: Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
#109They also use meta robots=noimageindex,noarchive on every page without an opt-out which is so incredibly stupid and walled-gardeny for an image sharing site. I wanted to use Flickr instead but nobody else uses Flickr, then I tried making my own image gallery and I learned that browsers do not honor the JPEG rotation EXIF data and I don't want to write my own rotation/cropping code (that and Google completely ignores…
>Kind of silly I can't find a good image sharing site in 2019. Have you investigated paid options? Otherwise, it's kind of silly that people expect free image hosting years after everyone has started monetizing.
I had a really good paid experience with SmugMug, which is now Flickr's parent company.
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#110Instagram also shut down their public api last year and are deprecating the graph api in a week. (5 Nov) https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/
The new api has no access to consumer (non-Business or non-Creator) instagram accounts.