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Threads.net Can Go to Hell

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Re: Threads.net Can Go to Hell

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Post by bakugo »

I just remembered that I read a bunch of comments here back when Threads launched about how Twitter was dead and Threads would replace it. A few months later and Threads is effectively dead. Pretty funny in retrospect.

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Post by jasonlotito »

> I would urge everyone to reconsider your reliance on Twitter, and reinvest in decentralized options such as blogs, RSS, and email.

None of these suggestions replace what Twitter offers as a whole. Suggesting blogs, RSS, and email as a replacement really is just another way of saying you don't know understand the domain. Which is fair, considering who the person is.

This is not to say that blogs, RSS, and email can't work for him, you, or me. But then, we aren't trying to solve the same things.

And more importantly, if you want people to use these tools, you first have to accept that they absolutely do not solve for the things Twitter provides. So, if you want to have people use that, make something that does that with blogs, RSS, and email.

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Post by kivlad »

I remember when Instagram started asking for your date of birth in order to use it, which prompted me to take a nice break from it. The next time I checked in, they made it so that you could have a "shadow birthday" tied to your age and the current date. I wonder if that'll affect me in the event I have to go through the kind of ID verification hell I see reported everywhere (including replies to this post).

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Post by qingcharles »

Instagram banned my business account today because they say I'm not a real person. I'm not trying to be. Nothing in my account said I was a real person. All the personal information in my account is real, though. I tried to appeal it which involves uploading a selfie. I've now learned this was my fatal mistake. You are not supposed to appeal it, that simply auto-perma-bans you. You're supposed to fill out a form which took me an hour to find about 27 levels deep on Meta's site. Which I can no longer fill out because I am perma-banned.

The point of this is: I also lost my Threads account.

If you lose your Instagram account, you lose your Threads account too.

I guess I should be lucky (?) that my Facebook account still works.

If you're stuck in the same situation as the author, DO NOT hit that Appeal button. It is a trick. It will not get your account unlocked, it will do the opposite and will get you perma-banned.

Here are links to help you:

https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/contact/165256783828...

https://help.instagram.com/contact/606967319425038

https://www.reddit.com/r/InstagramDisabledHelp/

https://twitter.com/disabledinsta

My account is lost forever. Don't let yours suffer the same fate.

It's really hurt my mental health having my account banned, as it does with many others. I'm sure there have been many suicides from people losing their accounts like this. Interacting with my account was one of my main sources of therapy.

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