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Offtopic but here we go: Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check i
by Jare 3y ago
Offtopic but here we go:
Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out.
2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "Hello world", my Insta account was banned for generic reason (breaking the TOS, nothing concrete). I only found out 2 weeks later, as I hadn't even visited the site(s) again. Their "Appeal" button leads to a request to send a confirmation code to my phone, but no code ever arrives (Spanish phone, not a complicated country). There's no button or link to tell them that it doesn't.
I know of others who have experienced the same thing. Move fast and break things indeed.
- theragra 3y agoAlso, I constantly receive password reset codes to my email. I am not sure what scammers want to achieve, but it is annoying that Meta cannot do anything.
- sjhdjshdjskhds 3y agoMessage you friends and ask for emergency money.
- theragra 3y agoHow? They don't have access to my email.
- lapcat 3y agoIn trying to sign up for Threads, I was insta-banned when I created an Instagram account, without even having a chance to use it, for allegedly violating the ToS, which seems impossible, since I hadn't done anything yet. They wanted to extract my phone number from me, and then also a photo/video after that to "verify" my identity, so I aborted the process, because I'm not going to feed the data slurping machine. I think that's the whole point of these fake bans, to extract personal data from you. Twitter used to auto-ban me too in order to extract my phone number, and we know that Twitter illegitimately used phone numbers for advertising purposes. To hell with the corporate-owned social networks. I want no part of them anymore. I'm sticking with Mastodon, which is free from this garbage.
- Nextgrid 3y ago[flagged]
- lapcat 3y ago> I say this in a derogatory fashion You're not supposed to do that here. > The reason you're insta-banned is that you didn't "engage" with it properly I was literally in the process of signing up. How else was I supposed to "engage"? > Facebook does not want technically-savvy people How would they even know? Like I said, I hadn't even finished signing up yet.
- adra 3y agoMy guess is that you signed up through a VPN, and this is an anti-bot automated system. I'm not a meta employee, just speculating. Remember, VPNs are the collective abuse of all of their users, not just you; same with public access networks.
- lapcat 3y ago> My guess is that you signed up through a VPN Your guess is wrong. I don't use any VPN. Why is everyone trying to find reasons to blame the victims?
- unethical_ban 3y agoI have noticed that after I get banned from Reddit for idiotic reasons, the accounts I create through VPN get silently blocked on a lot of subreddits, while the account that got created from home ISP had that problem less so. It's not victim blaming, just a fact that some sites punish VPN users.
- Nextgrid 3y ago> Why is everyone trying to find reasons to blame the victims? Not OP but I'm not blaming the victim. I'm just trying to explain the reasons why the situation is like that and suggested (regulatory) solutions - the only solutions that would actually work.
- captn3m0 3y agoThis is true for all Meta/Google/Twitter properties. No phone number results in a high chance of suspension irrespective of your usage.
- dissident_coder 3y agoIt's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'm allowed to use, the better for my sanity, good riddance.
- butlike 3y agoTO BE FAIR (and I'm still on the fence how I feel about this)... the less personal information you share, the more bot-like you appear to be.
- dissident_coder 3y agoMeta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners. As I also value freedom of association, I am perfectly alright with them refusing to "do business" with me because I do not find the denomination and terms of the transaction acceptable. I do not really have any inclination to want to compel them to serve me by force of gun, either. I think both they and myself are better off in this scenario where we just choose to not do business with each other and I find some other business that has more acceptable terms - or I just go without, these services aren't as essential as some people think.
- Jare 3y agoBut I did give them my phone number. I'm pretty sure they already had it from Facebook anyway, I've had a FB account for 15 years. They just were unable to send the code to it, so I could not proceed with whatever appeal process they have in place. That said, if the next step was asking for my face, I'd have probably stopped right there like a poster said. They do have photos of me (Facebook) but it would just be too much.
- nimajneb 3y agoAnother weird experience I had with this company is when I deactivated my FB account. A few months later a friend texted me and asked if I was going to an event. Apparently he had invited me to it on FB and FB didn't tell him my account is deactivated... So I never saw the invite and the system didn't tell him I didn't see it. I tested this with my wife, you still show up in invitable people and probably invite suggestions even when your account is deactivated. That makes no sense to me.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoOut of curiosity, are you EU-based?
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