Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

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.

  1. Give e-mail (ok)
  2. Give phone number (.... eeh, ok)
  3. Use the new account for a while
  4. 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

Templa ,
@Templa@beehaw.org avatar

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

BruceLee ,
@BruceLee@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

Steamymoomilk ,
@Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works avatar

Follow up message be like

"Hi this is mark from instagram, so a face scan wasnt enough to verify your account. We sent you vials to fill with your dna, so we can be 100% sure.just to verify that you are who you say you are thanks!."

Raiderkev ,

🍆💦

LemmyHead ,

They didn't delete your account. They deactivated it. It's still worth money to them

gmtom ,
@gmtom@lemmy.world avatar

How did you get in contact with them? They locked my account 2 months ago for unknown reasons.

synae ,
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

absolute_win.gif

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

no thanks xi

It’s coming from inside the Instagram! specter

How much US military-industrial Kool-Aid have you drunk?

lud ,

It was a joke. Calm down .ml

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Shrödinger’s joke

frauddogg ,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Schrodinger's Douchebag

reverendsteveii ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/c9618d2e-6df9-4416-ab9b-f5735b8a39ab.webp

Tiltinyall ,

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.

toastal ,

This is how I ended up getting my account deleted as well. 3D scan of my head was a immediate nope.

foremanguy92_ ,

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! 👌

acetanilide ,

Yeah I've only done it on government websites because I had to

foremanguy92_ ,

And government website already know who you are

lseif ,

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.

pineapplelover ,

Yet all those Instagram bots still exist. Weird

frauddogg ,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

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

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod , (edited )
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).

I find it interesting how people like OP are racist pieces of shit, even though Facebook or Zuckerberg or USA has NOTHING to do with China. This is just as sensible as saying my neighbour in Florida has 3 dangerous bulldogs, and this is Xi Jinping's or Putin's fault.

I do not care about this little privacy invasion fling, because playing stupid games wins you stupid prizes, like this post. Having a personal Facebook/Instagram in 2024 is batshit insane. What is more important is the "no thanks Xi" nonsense that westerners are refusing to give up. It almost feels like xenophobia and bigotry is a part of their culture.

In case the message is still unclear... westerners need to stop blaming the "foreign enemy" (China/Russia) for all their self goals and wrongdoings. They are responsible for their own nonsense. Tide pod challenges exist in USA and not China for a reason, the population of one of those countries is dumber than a donkey.

emergencyfood ,

I think OP is confusing Instagram with Tiktok.

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

No, Facebook and Instagram do this video selfie or government ID thing. Tiktok has never asked for these things to date, on top of letting you use it without account. OP is bigoted.

frauddogg ,
@frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Bigoted and trying to hide it behind "buhhhh buhhh it's just a joke guise" like that tactic hasn't been cracked for like a decade

electricprism ,

He's probably referencing that influencers of all platforms are paid to push propaganda to their followers by various state actors.

emergencyfood ,

OP said nothing about influencers though?

pupbiru , (edited )
@pupbiru@aussie.zone avatar

and in the same way, perhaps stop saying “westerners”

many us had the same thought that it’s xenophobic bullshit… perhaps we all should stop arbitrarily grouping people into geographic groups and making sweeping generalisations

and saying that the USA is dumber than a donkey and implying that china is not is just fucking laughable… i’m aussie, so i have no horse in either race: our economy is almost entirely reliant on china and we rely on the USA for basically everything else, including protection from china… and yknow what? all cultures are fucking weird… stop being so god damn condescending. the only thing it proves is that you’ve never travelled enough, or that “different” makes you uncomfortable which makes you an incurable bigot

TheAnonymouseJoker Mod ,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

The whole west is one nation in how they are ok with Palestinian genocide. These same people were the ones lying about Uyghur Muslims few years ago. It is no surprise west is bigoted as a whole, considering the colonialist history of USA and Europe that is quite exclusive to them. ASPI is from your country, right? Or Murdoch network? Guess what, Australia is part of west. Australia is not just part, but USA's Deputy Sheriff in Asia region, and even have their military bases where you people are disallowed from going. Australia also loves to harass or kill Indian immigrants, so it is part of the problem.

As for the donkey part, I know of only one country at large in the world, where people have the audacity to do moral grandstanding while supporting overseas genocide and wars silently, and not even knowing where countries are on map. You are the laughable simp for west.

It is perfectly okay to call out on and shit on this western exclusive attitude I commonly see on YouTube, Reddit, twitter, 4chan, western forums and now even fucking Lemmy. Everything is about China, Russia, DPRK, Iran and whoever else is the "enemy". There is plenty of shade throwing happening to keep the hatred alive.

Westerners are very much one group, considering what all is happening today. The "nuance" and civility is murdered by westerners, by controlling global media, spreading hatred for non Anglos, aiding or committing genocides and doing this kind of stuff like OP in daily lives. The voting pattern kind of tells the story, though, as OP gets upvoted with a complete acceptance of "no thanks xi" racism where there is no role of China. It is okay for you people, and in the future there will never be a discussion on this sort of behaviour. Go to 4chan if you want to be okay with it. They do it in every paragraph.

314xel ,
@314xel@lemmy.world avatar

Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text "So long and thanks for all the fish!". And never came back.

helenslunch ,

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...

ReversalHatchery ,

I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently

I doubt that they have uploaded any kind of photos

helenslunch ,

They said "for the past 3 years", indicating they were using it previously.

7eter ,

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    helenslunch ,

    What is your point? Do you just not realize the world existed prior to 3 years ago?

    ReversalHatchery ,

    You're right, I misunderstood it

    LostXOR ,

    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.

    delirious_owl , (edited )
    @delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

    Do you have a good recommendation for when they ask for a photo ID? I read about OnlyFake, but its down and I can't find an alternative.

    Basically I want thisIDdoesnotexist

    LostXOR ,

    I've never had them ask for a photo ID so idk.

    uriel238 ,
    @uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    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.

    delirious_owl ,
    @delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

    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.

    lseif ,

    can confirm this also works with google account

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