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
If you succeed, there may be some risk of identification when you add family to your contacts. I'm not savvy enough to guide you thru that tho.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you succeed, there may be some risk of identification when you add family to your contacts. I'm not savvy enough to guide you thru that tho.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. :)
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.
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.
As if you can make that judgement for others. Don't do this next time.