Post #2173803
2026-05-07 18:59 UTC
Replies (40)
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@atro_city@fedia.io 2026-05-07 19:00
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Coincidence? I think not!
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@deusfigendi@troet.cafe 2026-05-07 19:02
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Maybe it's not allowed not to post? 🤔
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@AJCxZ0@fosstodon.org 2026-05-07 19:03
@pixelfed@mastodon.social This is exactly how a good phish would appear.
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@miiko@social.darxxide.eu 2026-05-07 19:03
@pixelfed@mastodon.social They must be super scared of you as a competitor.
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@heckersec@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 19:04
@pixelfed@mastodon.social In a way I see that as a good thing. Obviously the work being done by Pixelfed and other federated platforms is being viewed as a threat to the monoliths that run these big tech platforms. Keep up the fight, you'll have my support as long as you do
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@tofm2@social.netdynamics.eu 2026-05-07 19:09
@pixelfed@mastodon.social What a joke..
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@ezeno@mastodon.uno 2026-05-07 19:16
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Maybe they need room on their servers for their shitty AI.
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@treedpea@mastodontti.fi 2026-05-07 19:18
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I have had several test accounts without any posts and all of those were closed in a month or so. Banning dormant accounts is one way instagram is trying to prevent all kind of scraping and bot accounts from emerging on their platform. So I would say you would have been better off by posting something
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@krafting@mamot.fr 2026-05-07 19:24
@pixelfed@mastodon.social maybe time to actually work and push updates to pixelfed ? :)
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@Linux@masto.ai 2026-05-07 19:28
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Let me confirm your suspicion. Yes, it was suspended exactly for the reason you believe it was. We've been cracking down on service providers that provide products or services in direct competition with our own. Even if we restore it at a later time, expect to be more easily scrutinized.
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-05-07 19:31
@pixelfed@mastodon.social LoL. They aren't even hiding behind a mask anymore. Just wait until they get a private army like Russian companies!
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@kaito02@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 19:36
@pixelfed@mastodon.social they're sore losers
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@Hercules@tuiter.rocks 2026-05-07 19:48
@pixelfed@mastodon.social i had uninstall instagram and started uses pixelfed as a healthier alternatve
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@crse@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-07 19:49
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I heard Instagram are mass purging inactive account. Lots of influencer are repoeting thousands of lost followers.
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@emlove@kolektiva.social 2026-05-07 19:52
@pixelfed@mastodon.social
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@shahab_hashemi@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 19:53
@pixelfed@mastodon.social if pixelfed joins the diabolic data buisenes, then pixelfed would be welcome
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@Amapoladrawingsgab@mastoart.social 2026-05-07 19:54
@pixelfed@mastodon.social yep, this happens to me while creating and setting up instagram for the first day, forced me to verify my face, put a fake one and disable ^ ^'
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@RLRVivaldi@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-07 20:08
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Mine is finally almost gone. Full removal in a few weeks. They did the hard work for you.
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@prealpinux@mastodon.uno 2026-05-07 20:19
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Start sharing your user data with brokers, insert ads into Pixelfed and introduce AI to your Android app. They will probably reactivate your account after you have done this. 😅
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@buage@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 20:50
@pixelfed@mastodon.social They're probably trying to hide Pixelfed... Not surprising from meta
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@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social 2026-05-07 21:08
@pixelfed@mastodon.social My advice is to close the account, and also close any other accounts on anything owned by Meta that you control. They cannot be trusted, so spend no further energy growing followers there that will get cut off anyway. Export all possible useful contacts, attempt to reach followers with a post about where to go, but accept that that might be blocked. Give a week's warning, then shut down other accounts on Meta
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@mobidic@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 21:18
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I found no official Meta rule banning Pixelfed or links to rival platforms. Reports from 404 Media, Engadget and Daring Fireball say Meta/Facebook removed some pixelfed.social links as “spam” in 2025; Engadget reports Meta later called that removal a mistake. The relevant official rules are Instagram’s Community Guidelines and Meta’s Spam/Inauthentic Behavior policies against spam, scams, and artificially boosting likes, follows, shares, reach, or engagement. Let go!
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@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2026-05-07 21:20
@pixelfed@mastodon.social in under 10 minutes, this is the second time I see someone mentioning his/her account on IG got banned. And the first one afaik isn't even on the fediverse. 🤔
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@ikklegemzuniverseplus@ohai.social 2026-05-07 21:24
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I had an email saying that the other day too. I think it was because I don't use it. 😂
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@Catha@masto.es 2026-05-07 21:26
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Inst... Who??
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@revectane@social.tchncs.de 2026-05-07 21:34
@pixelfed@mastodon.social take it as a win, dont stay on that shithole
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@Johan_E_M@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 21:35
@pixelfed@mastodon.social surreal
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@niknabno@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 22:01
@pixelfed@mastodon.social This has happened to me thrice. I honestly don't understand how people are able to use Insta. Not because it's bad, but because of how difficult it is to keep an account for more than a week.
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@jarbus@fosstodon.org 2026-05-07 22:03
@pixelfed@mastodon.social you guys are doing something right :)
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@eugenenine@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 22:16
@pixelfed@mastodon.social
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@iagox86@infosec.exchange 2026-05-07 22:42
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I had a hell of a time making an Instagram account for my improv team - they just kept insta-banning it. I have no idea why, it's so annoying :(
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@O1ZZfA@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 23:00
@pixelfed@mastodon.social // For example... it's going too far as a bot or spam countermeasure. That's the only reason I don't want to create an Instagram account. :BlobhajSadReach: //
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@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange 2026-05-07 23:00
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I am not surprised.
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@mimblewimble@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 23:50
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Its time...
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@Onlykievv@bonito.cafe 2026-05-08 00:17
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Thank god that when I left instagram I met pixelfed, definitely one of the best alternatives I've ever used
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@stevenray@sfba.social 2026-05-08 00:42
@pixelfed@mastodon.social badge of honor.
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@olkosena@layer8.space 2026-05-08 02:53
@pixelfed@mastodon.social that's THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM I GOT HERE. PUT ANYTHING RELATED TO DECENTRALIZED SERVICES, YOU ARE DOOMED. :dank:
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@mortal_engine@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 03:42
@pixelfed@mastodon.social Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp, Instagram - which were rival to Facebook. Since Pixelfed cannot be bought, so suspended the account. How evil can one be. Big tech is big tech because of Monopoly. But it doesn't matter. We've got Pixelfed. We love you. Don't be disheartened, we'll spread the words.
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@mycotropic@beige.party 2026-05-08 05:36
@pixelfed@mastodon.social They won't let me follow my kids so, yeah, insta can actually fuck off.
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@mia@tearoom.tearmoon.com 2026-05-08 05:44
@pixelfed@mastodon.social they want you to specify your birthday apparently, this exact thing happened to me for a really really old account and on log-in I was asked for that Upon entering something valid I got an email about the removal of suspension