The app has been terrible in iOS for the past few days. Constant crashing.
Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
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#12Something similar happened to me about three months ago. I can no longer access my account. Attempting to open the app on any device results in a black screen and UI that errors whenever I interact with it.
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.
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#13I'm just hoping that if enough of these "incidents" happen, people will eventually stop using proprietary social media applications and use something free (as in freedom) and decentralized like Mastodon.
I don't think social media being down for a couple hours is a big enough inconvenience for most people to care.
Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
#14Perhaps Facebook is experiencing a lot of accumulated technical debt.
They've been doing a lot of "belt tightening," too
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#15my mom got banned from facebook a month ago for having, months earlier, enthusiastically replied to a friend's post about some upcoming trip with a hyperbolic comment saying she'd "sell a kidney to be able to go with her". after helping her resolve the issue (had to clear all fb cookies, otherwise she was just presented with a blank page, making even beginning the unbanning process impossible), I warned her, next time, make sure you specify that it's one of your own kidneys that you're hypothetically willing to sell.
EDIT: found the photo my mom took of the ban screen https://i.imgur.com/VeA3Nz2.png
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#16That's one of the reasons to POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere). If Instagram ever bans my account and even if the federated Pixelfed instance I've chosen will be taken down, all my photos will be still available on my personal homepage.
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#17Does that website exist solely to insult their reader's intelligence?
What is that? Is it supposed to be a caricature and I'm just not getting the joke?
Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
#18my mom got banned from facebook a month ago for having, months earlier, enthusiastically replied to a friend's post about some upcoming trip with a hyperbolic comment saying she'd "sell a kidney to be able to go with her". after helping her resolve the issue (had to clear all fb cookies, otherwise she was just presented with a blank page, making even beginning the unbanning process impossible), I warned her, next tim…
It's ridiculous that this kind of advice might even be necessary.
Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason
#19Perhaps Facebook is experiencing a lot of accumulated technical debt.
They've been doing a lot of "belt tightening," too
Fired the person who knew you need to check the scheduled job logs before you leave on Friday, because there's that one finicky cleanup job that breaks every now and then but also false-alarms enough that it's not hooked up to automated reporting, and no-one's gotten around to fixing it.
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#20Interesting - happened to my sister in law and the account looked like it was hacked. New PFP and no posts.