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Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now.

  1. Give e-mail (ok)
  2. Give phone number (.... eeh, ok)
  3. Use the new account for a while
  4. Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi). There are also some verification promps where you have to record a video and rotate your face left to right

If this isn't a message to move to indie web I don't know what is

toastal ,

This is how I ended up getting my account deleted as well. 3D scan of my head was a immediate nope.

pineapplelover ,

Yet all those Instagram bots still exist. Weird

Deckweiss ,

lol good!

Fuck stalky social media. Instagram is just there for farming engagement for ads and make you scroll for hours.

If you want to look at truly great photography or art go to a museum or exhibition.

notthoughtsjustcrabrave ,

There's hardly any photography in there nowadays...it's all reels.

frauddogg ,
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The PM of China has nothing to fucking do with Mark Lizardman Zuckerberg wanting your data, please shut the fuck up if you're going to be verifiably ignorant

314xel ,
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Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text "So long and thanks for all the fish!". And never came back.

lemmyreader ,

What ? You did not obey the surveillance capitalism overlords ? :-) /j

Thanks for sharing, good to know!

Is PixelFed https://pixelfed.org a good alternative for privacy minded people out there ?
I know that PixelFed users can be followed from Mastodon which seems nice to me.

huginn ,

It's open source and can be restricted to private followers. If you self host it'd be as private as possible for an Instagram clone

itsgroundhogdayagain ,

Several years ago I took an extended break from Facebook and when I tried to log back in, they wanted a copy of my drivers license to prove my identity. I declined and made a new account. Unfortunately, I still needed an account for local stuff like neighborhood info, local businesses, kids sports leagues, schools, etc.
After a couple years, my son got a Quest 2 and without even trying to log in, my original FB account was magically available once again.

The_Che_Banana ,
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For me there was a list of "acceptable ID" and thus, Che Banana's pay stub is now floating around some infosphere.

TWeaK ,

I'm a little gutted that I lost my Facebook account, if only because it was so old I had a username. Instead of my profile only being facebook.com/<number>, my profile was like facebook.com/tweak. People were really surprised by that.

However they blocked my account because I used 3rd party web wrapper apps and once had a poor internet connection in a remote location. It asked me to log in again, I did, then it said "you've done something strange" and demanded government ID. I actually complied (although I taped up most of the info, like it said I could) but it kept automatically rejecting it. I think it was because my profile used the shortened version of my name, which I go by on a day to day basis, while my ID uses the full version.

One of these days I might twist their arm with GDPR and get them to grant me access, however my local ICO has been pretty toothless under the current right wing government. I don't really miss Facebook, but there are friends and family on there I'd like to contact, and I was a member of a particularly good meme group.

Blxter ,
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That's actually crazy.... I have had an Instagram since like the start but have no posts on my account. I guess I have a pfp but that's it. I also don't really get on it.

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