Instagram suspended our account, one we've never posted from, just added a link to https://pixelfed.org in the bio.

[atro_city@fedia.io]

@pixelfed@mastodon.social

::: spoiler Coincidence?
I think not!
:::

[deusfigendi@troet.cafe]

@pixelfed

Maybe it's not allowed not to post?

[ajcxz0@fosstodon.org]

@pixelfed This is exactly how a good phish would appear.

[miiko@social.darxxide.eu]

@pixelfed They must be super scared of you as a competitor.

[heckersec@mastodon.social]

@pixelfed In a way I see that as a good thing. Obviously the work being done by Pixelfed and other federated platforms is being viewed as a threat to the monoliths that run these big tech platforms. Keep up the fight, you'll have my support as long as you do

[tofm2@social.netdynamics.eu]

@pixelfed What a joke..

[heckersec@mastodon.social]

@AJCxZ0 @pixelfed Since their page is not available, I'd say it's likely real.

[ezeno@mastodon.uno]

@pixelfed Maybe they need room on their servers for their shitty AI.

[treedpea@mastodontti.fi]

@pixelfed 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

[krafting@mamot.fr]

@pixelfed maybe time to actually work and push updates to pixelfed ?

[linux@masto.ai]

@pixelfed

Let me confirm your suspicion.

Yes, it was suspended exactly for the reason you believe it was.

We've been cracking down on service providers that provide products or services in direct competition with our own.

Even if we restore it at a later time, expect to be more easily scrutinized.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@pixelfed LoL. They aren't even hiding behind a mask anymore.

Just wait until they get a private army like Russian companies!

[linux@masto.ai]

@deusfigendi

Yes, we have also been cracking down an inactive accounts too.

Especially, if you're not part of the problem of us being a successful evil corporation, you're not welcome.

@pixelfed

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@pixelfed they're sore losers

[hercules@tuiter.rocks]

@pixelfed i had uninstall instagram and started uses pixelfed as a healthier alternatve

[crse@social.linux.pizza]

@pixelfed I heard Instagram are mass purging inactive account.

Lots of influencer are repoeting thousands of lost followers.

[emlove@kolektiva.social]

@pixelfed

[shahab_hashemi@mastodon.social]

@pixelfed if pixelfed joins the diabolic data buisenes, then pixelfed would be welcome

[fluffykittycat@furry.engineer]

@miiko @pixelfed they've been censoring alternatives for a while now. They're evil and they're scared

[amapoladrawingsgab@mastoart.social]

@pixelfed yep, this happens to me while creating and setting up instagram for the first day, forced me to verify my face, put a fake one and disable ^ ^'