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

  • lemmyreaderEnglish
    28·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • huginn@feddit.it
      8·
      7 months ago

      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