Post #2217612
2026-05-07 19:18 UTC
@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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@pinoycelt@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 00:18
@treedpea@mastodontti.fi @pixelfed@mastodon.social Unfortunately not true in some cases. I ran Longwalks 2.0 on IG for 11 months after Longwalks app shut down. The only thing I did was hit the like button a little too much early on, which earned me account restrictions that I didn't repeat. I just posted a family friendly community daily prompt & a related meme. I never showed my face, didn't let fake instahoes follow the page & didn't make money for anyone, & for that I suspect I was suspended & removed. And I'm better off.