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>When I signed up, however, my Instagram account was immediately suspended, before I even had the chance to use it. If you haven't already made accounts in any
by 0x_rs 3y ago
>When I signed up, however, my Instagram account was immediately suspended, before I even had the chance to use it.
If you haven't already made accounts in any major platform many years ago, getting in without giving a massive amount of personal information (up to having to send your very own personal documents, such as your passport) is not as simple as just signing up, and it gets worse if anti-fraud algorithms pick you up, or your device is "off the norm", I've already experienced a few services where signing up via phone application works, but it's impossible through a desktop. This seems like a very overlooked issue that's become somewhat expected, even outside Meta's trigger happy ban policy (remember people getting banned for signing up to use their oculus device?)
- omoikane 3y agoI am rooting for Mastodon to become a major platform. There you can just sign up while hardly giving them anything. The flip side is that spammers too can just sign up quite easily.
- CM30 3y agoYep. I tried to make a test account on Twitter/X to use the the API integration with, and dear lord it was a nightmare. Loads of captchas, the requirement to use a mobile number to sign up at all, and quite a few other issues I can't remember. Forget about getting out of the walled garden, even getting in is painful if you're a late adopter or need extra accounts for whatever reason.