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.
- Give e-mail (ok)
- Give phone number (… eeh, ok)
- Use the new account for a while
- 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
This is how I ended up getting my account deleted as well. 3D scan of my head was a immediate nope.
no thanks xi
It’s coming from inside the Instagram!
How much US military-industrial Kool-Aid have you drunk?
It was a joke. Calm down .ml
A wild tankie appears and minimizes China’s surveillance state. Hey there you, have any Chinese immigrant friends? Did you know they are survielled and harassed around the world by the Chinese govenment? Your leaders will always fail you, mine too. I’m not gonna sit here in denial about it.
Yeah. I used to have fake facebook account because i got hooked on one of those mmorpg games. IDK what happened but something did and my account got suspended and FB requested me to upload my face and government ID. Yeah fuck that, uploaded some NSFW images and my account got deleted. Worth it.
Note that the people verifying that picture are not the people who set the policies or systems in place. You abused an innocent who’s just trying to earn some bread, you didn’t send NSFW materials to Zuck.
Not any of our problems; if you willfully work for Meta after everything that has come out about them, you’re a scab against the people and shouldn’t be regarded past that point. Fuck should I care about techbros who wouldn’t know solidarity if it popped out of a manhole and blew a new hole in their ass for?
you’re a scab against the people and shouldn’t be regarded past that point.
WTF‽ They are trying to stay alive, not murder your parents!
Do you think they are well paid or something? If you have an income, they likely earn 100 times less or something.
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with users on some instances?
Still not my problem; my man you should not be talking about jobs and who holds 'em when Amerika is looking at a job shortage because of all the offshoring. I said what I said with my whole chest; if you work for them in any form, facility, or function, or uplift those who do, I consider you an opp
No one verifying images for meta is a techbro. That’s indonesian work.
I doubt those people even know they work for Meta. They probably work at an agency which does this for multiple services, not only Facebook and they probably have that job because they can’t get a better one. It isn’t even unheard of for this to be done by kidnapped people in captivity. Sending provoking material doesn’t do anything meaningful other than make those peoples’ day worse, and chances are it’s already pretty close to hell on earth.
I mean its not like i send some gore pictures or anything. The person on the end probably got some good chuckles about it. Eh, its harmless joke. You dont have to think about it too much.
Are there actually people in the loop? Are you sure it’s not all bots? It’s not like they will communicate with you at all about your ban aside from template emails.
Many years ago I had a Facebook account under my real name, and they blocked it and told me to verify … I did everything they asked and they wouldn’t accept it… I recreated it under a fake name (very obvious it’s fake since it uses a celeb name) and have been using it for messaging a couple of friends for like a decade now with no issue
I used a fake name on Facebook and one day I similarly got suspended asking for government ID. So I photoshopped some fake ID with the fake name, printed it, put it in a plastic sleeve and took a photo of that, and they accepted it.
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.
There’s hardly any photography in there nowadays…it’s all reels.
I’ve had that a few times on my accounts (I scrape content so they get suspended relatively often) and I always just grab a photo from thispersondoesnotexist.com and crop out the watermark. It hasn’t failed me yet.
Do you have a good recommendation for when they ask for a photo ID? I read about OnlyFakes, but its down and I can’t find an alternative.
Basically I want thisIDdoesnotexist
I’ve never had them ask for a photo ID so idk.
I know you can get ID deets here, but I don’t know any service that turns it into a facsimile of a state ID card.
Yeah basically that plus thispersondoesnotexist thrown into a Photoshop template rendered as a photo on a floor carpet with AI
Edit: I found https://verif.tools but some of them don’t look very good.
can confirm this also works with google account
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.
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
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.
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
Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).
I mean, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but…I’m pretty sure your Facebook page probably already has hundreds of photos of you, so it doesn’t seem like a big ask, but it also seems like a terrible verification method…
I’ve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently
I doubt that they have uploaded any kind of photos
They said “for the past 3 years”, indicating they were using it previously.
social media hermit for the past 3 years
Like an individual who avoided social-media/online-sharing for the past 3 years.
What is your point? Do you just not realize the world existed prior to 3 years ago?
I’ve had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated
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.
How did you get in contact with them? They locked my account 2 months ago for unknown reasons.
I don’t give my picture to social media but in a way the fact that you have to take pictures directly from your app is the proper way to digitalised identifing someone. Back to the time where people phisically register, people will showed up to prove which face they have an match it with an non reproductible identity card. But, now I could easily inpersonnate 5 or 10 of my relative and love-ones from the picture I have from them and image of their id-card or another official document they have give me access to, or they have access from my computer once.
Maybe for app banking app (and even…), it could be understanding but for instagram, NEVER! Even for security reason… Bro they don’t care about anything on their network, allow soft porn and all that kind of stuff. And after all of that they are going to come to say that it is for security reasons 😂 Stay on the “libre” web, Lemmy is a great start! 👌
i mean, unless the bank already knows what you look like or could cross reference with an existing id photo, i cant see how it would be any more secure.
Yeah I’ve only done it on government websites because I had to
And government website already know who you are
Yet all those Instagram bots still exist. Weird
