And so it begins.
Today, I have created the social media accounts for Esquerdino.
TL;DR
- Instagram: @esquerdinodotcom
- Mastodon: @esquerdino@mastodon.social
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.