Readit Newssmnrg commented on Ask HN: IG banned me over my ex's retracted claim on a dog photo. Human review? · Posted by u/smnrg
http://oversightboardappeals.com/submit/ ? Apologies if you already used this.
Didn't know about this. Thanks! Although, as paradoxically expected, in order to use it you need an active IG account. Which is... the main problem. I was also advised to write to the California AG.
smnrg commented on Ask HN: IG banned me over my ex's retracted claim on a dog photo. Human review? · Posted by u/smnrg
disclaimer: zero instagram experience
From <1yo results on setting up an anonymous instagram account: Different email address, different phone number and I'll add setting up from a different device and IP.
Lots of email options, like disroot.org.
If your phone takes a physical sim, you can buy a new prepaid starter.
Or sign up with a MVNO like anveo.com and get a forwarding number
(incoming text only w/ that last)
A public library would connect you with a different device and IP
ref: https://kagi.com/search?q=How+to+set+up+an+anonymous+instagr...
This is useful info and POV. Thanks so much for the pointers. Everything is exhausting right now, including using basic tools that became de facto behemoths of communications.
I have been trying a combination of those—though the app doesn't like GrapheneOS either, I suspect. I transitioned most of my overseas family to Signal and other channels, though some of them just won't—and I understand that.
P.S. Happy to see another Kagi user help here. :)
smnrg commented on Ask HN: IG banned me over my ex's retracted claim on a dog photo. Human review? · Posted by u/smnrg
You don’t need instagram. Just unplug and move on
I understand the sentiment. In principle, I agree with conscious use of these tools.
In this specific case, however, it wasn't for general browsing. After living overseas for more than a decade, you realize that, for some people, these platforms function as essential infrastructure. I can't force my old aunt on Signal or Matrix or whatever. It had become the only channel to call my 76yo uncle. Family I'd just reconnected with. This is especially true during a divorce with far away aging family members.
My post is less about my need for Instagram and more about the systemic problem: what recourse does a person have when a company's automated moderation fails and the original reason for the ban is proven invalid? That's the technical/procedural question I'm hoping to find an answer for.
smnrg commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg
>to my fellow local USsians.
I think you illustrated why the concept exists. USA actually has "America" in its name, unlike others - hence 'Americans' and not 'USsians'.
While Americans can mean "from the US", the term "statunitensi" is how people from the US are commonly called in Italy. And in other countries. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and calling Americans for people from the US is just a figure of speech called synecdoche.
smnrg commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg
Many Italian newspapers (example: IlPost) and, I suspect, many non-US media, report this as “the second American Pope, the first from the USA.”
Which, I think, is fair, as South and Latin are also America. And so is Canada. And so was Francis.
But I usually find it a hard concept to convey to my fellow local USsians.