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Meta has shut down Istanbul Trans Pride Week's Instagram account three days before the start.

https://kaosgl.org/en/single-news/trans-pride-week-s-instagram-account-shut-down
Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

Please please please stop using corporate social media for organising and events, it locks out people who care about privacy, they have to go searching instead of just being told what happens, and it's just generally a bad experience all around.

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🐝bownage [they/he] - 6mon

I can't wrap my head around the fact that my fav techno club which prides itself on being oh so queer oriented and inclusive uses Facebook to announce their events. In the year of our lord 2025??? Facebook???? For queer shit????????????

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BeBopALouie - 6mon

For any shit IMO. Facebook a festering hole now, designed to spread hate and monitor people. I quit over 10yrs ago and I am an actual boomer. If this old fart can quit anyone can.

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

Yeah, I've seen so many queer things use Facebook or Instagram and it's baffling.

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real_squids @sopuli.xyz - 6mon

Plausible explanation - they want more reach. If you use something as ubiquitous as FB/IG, more people are going to read your page. Region dependents ofc

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BeBopALouie - 6mon

Hmmm, that did not work out so well did it. Cant send much info to your venue with your accounts toasted.

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real_squids @sopuli.xyz - 6mon

You're reading their statement about it though.

You can't have huge reach without using shit tier corporate media. Not yet anyway. People are used to things they're used to, it's not exactly rocket science. Make backups elsewhere and encourage people to follow you there, that's the sensible option imo.

edit: unless you're willing to limit reach from day 1, I'm sure there are orgs like that

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obsidianfoxxy7870 - 6mon

I know same with many many many other type of "activist" organizations. Like some Anarchist that wanted me to follow there Instagram. I have a lack of faith in your views if you are still on Instagram or similar.

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

Yeah, same to be honest. It just doesn't make any sense to us how one or many can be an anarchist(s) and not despise corporate social media etc.

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not quite01(they/them) - 6mon

As a temparary solution there is a frontend called imginn where you can see the stories and posts whithout an account. now no idea how trustworthy that front end is but ive been using for a while

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

:o Thanks so much! May we have a link please?

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

Awesome, thanks so much!

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not quite01(they/them) - 6mon

Your welcome!

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Of the Air (cele/celes) - 6mon

Hmm, sadly without adblockers, as is not avaliable in some places, it seems to be full of ads.

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not quite01(they/them) - 6mon

well shit i did not notice that since I use Ublock origin as an adblock

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jol @discuss.tchncs.de - 6mon

Most likely, anti-pride users kept reporting the page until a bored, or homophobic, moderator finally approved the reports. Another possibility is Meta are replacing all moderation with AI. In both cases, this is still on Meta since this directly comes from the degrarion of protection of DEI groups.

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copygirl - 6mon

Hasn't it become standard practice for mass-reports on big social media platforms to automatically shut down accounts and content, with human moderators (sometimes) undoing such after the fact?

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jol @discuss.tchncs.de - 6mon

Zuck has explicitly said they are reducing moderation and relying more on user reports, so....

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T156 @lemmy.world - 6mon

Could also be that reports reached a critical mass, and it was automatically taken down for human review.

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NickwithaC - 6mon

Zuckerberg is trying so hard to be as hated as Musk.

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Dave2 - 6mon

Could the government have a role in this? Because I wholeheartedly believe if they could they would.

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