A family member of mine had 4000+ posts of their art on their instagram, with quite a few followers, and one day the account just got nuked. That's it, not even a message beyond "broke policies".
Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#82Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#83So, when is BlueSky finally getting out of beta?
Might take quite a while. Bluesky is currently only at 266k registered users and there were already some scaling issues when Twitter introduced the rate limits. Although I think they now have improved the way that the service can be scaled up based on demand.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#84Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
They want your selfies for facial recognition in order to track you better across the web and possibly resell that information to third parties. Also a great dataset for "AI" training, so your face can appear in modified form in laundered pictures.
I think they want selfies to enforce a one-account-per-person policy, to limit scraping. They already enforce phone verification, but there's plenty of ways around that (e.g. services that redirect verification SMS from hacked phones, or just buy phone-verified accounts from someone else). Facial recognition raises the bar and gives them extra confidence that two accounts are unrelated even if they have similar IPs/access patterns/whatever
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#85Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
> Is that shitty user-hostile behaviour from Meta? Absolutely yes — but not that shitty. I think you're reading too much into it. "Shitty user-hostile behaviour" would be "Muahahahaha, if anyone ever wants to get rid of their Threads account they must also *delete their Instagram account*, hahahaha, the world is MINE! MINE, I TELL YOU!" Is that scenario more or less likely than "fuck it, just use the Insta signup ser…
I don't know. I think that users being able to harmlessly deactivate their Threads account but not delete their profile is evidence against that hypothesis. Surely the ability to delete something is one of the most basic features? All the more so if Threads just depends on Instagram for auth.
My bet is that the decision to not allow the user to delete only their Threads profile has been fully intentional. The last thing Meta wants is for the fleeting users who quickly jumped on the latest Threads fad to eventually delete their profile once they become bored. That would be embarrassing to Threads and reduce its sticking power if it were a common enough phenomenon. Much better for them to keep the users' content hostage under their desire to keep their Instagram account.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably on of the tools you post it too _or posted it in_ runs a web-scrapper. And there might be a person specific id in the link you get, which other people copying the image don't get. For example edge did for a while scrap any link you visited with it, even if you logged out of exactly this feature, not running any heuristics about weather it might a a magic link and then skipping it and AFIK also not stripping…
> And there might be a person specific id in the link you get This is how they know I'm doing it, each url seems to be custom generated for the specific view of the post from an account because they actually expire too eventually. But you know "scraping" is like sharing what? 15 image links off the walled garden a month? Just think it's an insane amount of effort to go to for them to try to make the internet stop wor…
The solution is to simply stop using their services. That's how you reclaim the internet: by refusing to participate in walled gardens.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will only have activitypub/mastodon till it is the number 1 player... At that point, suddenly the activitypub feeds will start mysteriously getting unreliable/ratelimited and eventually support will be dropped and it'll be back to a silo. You only build the walls high after you have captured everyone...
It literally is nr 1 after 5 hrs. Interoperability is needed if Meta wants run Threads in EU. ActivityPub is W3C protocole.
> Interoperability
I think privacy is bigger issue here.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing: > Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success". > But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram." If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
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#89Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
I don't see it Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account and Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.
Read them back carefully - they're two different sides of a coin. One is talking about deleting your Threads account, the other is about deleting your Instagram account.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#90let's make this platform a little more 'sticky'