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Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason

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Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason

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Post by iLoveOncall »

darekkay wrote: post #16

That'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.

This is not a silver bullet and it gives you a false sense of security.

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.

Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason

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Post by dncornholio »

adamrezich wrote: post #15

my 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…

I don't think Facebook let's you know why they banned someone specifically, or do they? It could be; you assume it would be for this comment, but it's not outside the realm of possibilities that something else triggered it, right?

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Post by mnw21cam »

Covzire wrote: post #18
adamrezich wrote: post #15

my 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.

Hey, I can go down to the local supermarket and buy kidneys. They're cheap. You didn't specify human, did you?

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

chmod775 wrote: post #17

Does 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?

No, its right on the mark for their intended audience. It's not a joke and it's always been like that. They used to publish topless ladies on page 3 from the 1970s to 2010s. The "red tops" are a (low) class of their own.

Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason

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Post by iLoveOncall »

dav1app wrote: post #4

I am one of the suspended account. Yesterday was election day in Brazil, but I didn't manifested any political positions. Imagine how hard was for Brazilians to think about why this has happened.

Why would any Brazilian think an American social network that is about posting pictures of your Sunday brunch has any link to the Brazilian elections?

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Post by seanw444 »

malfist wrote: post #13
bheadmaster wrote: post #10

I'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.

Yeah no average person cares about the difference between proprietary and free (as in freedom). If it does a thing, they'll use it. If it does a thing extremely poorly, but it's marketed well, they'll use it. If it does a thing, and they get censored continually, they'll use it. If it does a thing, but only via one method (you can't do it your way), they'll use it. If it does a thing while spying on their data, they'll use it. If it does a thing while showing them ads every 5 minutes, they'll use it.

Normal people take such a beating, and just keep on trucking. It's truly fascinating.

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Post by notacoward »

As others have also speculated, it's likely to be some auto-moderation system going haywire, either on its own or because of a change in one of the bazillion other services below it. It might require creating special one-off tools to crawl through logs and find the affected accounts, so it might take a while, but undoing 99% of the damage as automatically as it occurred should be feasible.

Re: Instagram ‘down’, suspending accounts for no apparent reason

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Post by annadane »

klyrs wrote: post #14
MichaelZuo wrote: post #7

Perhaps Facebook is experiencing a lot of accumulated technical debt.

They've been doing a lot of "belt tightening," too

And I bet if it was only Apple's iOS changes they would be fine, but that combined with Zuck's Metaverse obsession is dragging them under
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