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

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Post by iLoveOncall »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #33
iLoveOncall wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well then just make your own domain registrar, duh. In seriousness though, it's been much less likely historically for registrars to take sites down than for social media to ban users.

> In seriousness though, it's been much less likely historically for registrars to take sites down than for social media to ban users.

Is it? We're comparing billions of social media users with at most millions of domain name owners. We're also comparing the unhinged cesspool of social media with the vastly more currated custom websites (and the amount of moderation that goes with it).

I'm not sure that if you looked at the proportion of users unjustifiably banned from social media VS registrars you would see such a big difference.

I'm pretty sure that if you sent a few DMCA requests to a registrar you'd get any small website closed in less than a week.

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

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.

> people will eventually stop using proprietary social media applications

I have ~280 followers on the Instagram with reasonable engagement on my photos[1] and -maybe- 10 on the Fediverse with basically zero engagement.

People won't stop using the proprietary apps until there's a decent amount of the people they know on the alternatives (which, to be fair, is definitely burgeoning this week.)

[1] A fair few from a hashtag which, correct me if I'm wrong, don't really work the same way on the Fediverse - you can't just follow #donkeys and get an aggregation of posts with that hashtag; only the ones from a particular server.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

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?

That's Britain's most popular newspaper you're talking about: https://www.statista.com/statistics/246077/reach-of-selected...

Of course it's there to insult the reader's intelligence. The middle class version is the Daily Mail. Large parts of the British press are trash. Don't look up the Daily Sport, your head will explode (and it's probably NSFW, despite still being on some petrol station newsstands)

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

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Post by weberer »

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?

It is one of the eponymous British tabloids. If you've ever seen people pejoratively refer to a newspaper as a "tabloid", they're comparing it to this.

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

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Post by shuntress »

seanw444 wrote: post #27
malfist wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'…

So... people will use _anything_ as long as it works. Are you saying that the "free (as in freedom)" alternatives to proprietary solutions don't work?

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

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Post by pjc50 »

ridgered4 wrote: post #40
adamrezich wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not see the actual screen where it shows you what you were banned for, I just helped my mom submit her driver's license photos and so forth, and it wasn't until a couple days later that she was presented with a screen that, by her description, was essentially identical to the twitter screen that shows you your offending tweet, and asks you to remove it in order to continue using the service. EDIT: found the pho…

Why do you need to submit driver's license photos to contest a ban?

To link you to a real-world identity and prevent you from submitting the same driver's license to get your other ten thousand accounts unbanned.

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

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Post by Kiro »

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.

That will never ever happen.

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

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Post by skunkworker »

AnonHP wrote: post #35
skunkworker wrote: post #6

It happened to me this morning. And going from this Reddit thread and twitter it’s pretty widespread and also random. https://reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/yibnws/does_this_nor... And Instagram support on twitter responded https://twitter.com/InstagramComms/status/158708556379401830...

Whatever “support” Instagram pretends to have deleted its tweet sometime later.

Their tweet is still up.

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

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Post by dncornholio »

adamrezich wrote: post #31
dncornholio wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I did not see the actual screen where it shows you what you were banned for, I just helped my mom submit her driver's license photos and so forth, and it wasn't until a couple days later that she was presented with a screen that, by her description, was essentially identical to the twitter screen that shows you your offending tweet, and asks you to remove it in order to continue using the service. EDIT: found the pho…

Thanks.. Kind of unreal. I think we are doomed, because this is not even funny even more, but it's also hilarious.
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