Created Social Media Accounts

And so it begins.

Today, I have created the social media accounts for Esquerdino.

TL;DR

Problems with Instagram

I’ve first started to create an account on Instagram, and it was immediately removed. I don’t understand why, all they said was that it went against the terms of service. But how can it go against the terms if I just created it? I couldn’t even login.

A possible alternative

This took me to Mastodon where I created https://mastodon.social/@esquerdino.

It’s harder to censor an account on Mastodon as it is a more decentralized and permissionless social network.

However, after exploring Mastodon for a while I understood it would be difficult for Esquerdino to be found there as it has considerable less users than Instagram.

Back to Instagram

I tried one more time to create an account on Instagram, this time sucessfully.

If you want to follow us on Instagram, the handle is @esquerdinodotcom.

Conclusion

I don’t know if I’ll have the time to update both of these account but I’ll definately try.

Today was a reminder that on social media you don’t own your account, the company hosting it does, and once they decide to remove it, there’s not much you can do about it.

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