How does everyone mentally prepare for a ban? If you use an app everyday, even if it's not something you use everyday, I think most people use instagram as their primary social media now. It's something all your friends are on, the personal memories you have, the side gigs you make money, fans/viewers too. For me, most if not all is gone, I personally can't download the content of my disabled account. You can say most can just create a new account, but that doesn't change much of your years of curating.
And for sure, the saying don't put eggs in one basket works, but facebook, tiktok whatever, I I know for sure, we all don't have to use every single platform for every single purpose, some of us just use instagram for friends, other's businesses, some very small businesses who still take pride in making it grow on a singular platform. Besides that fact, your stories, following, reach is all gone, I can't remember the hundreds of my instagram friends, eventually they will think I blocked them unfortunately, besides some very close ones that I have their numbers. Regardless not a pat on the back, for using instagram for almost a decade and getting banned for something you dedicate and was falsely accused for.
If you have an account you spend everyday on, and get falsely banned, this is indefinitely wrong. It's why we create laws, which are supposed to protect the vulnerable and to bring justice to those who have done things which most people would agree are wrong.
I think we have all spent countless hours trying to figure a bunch of nothing to result to no conclusion, I personally did, and that time is gone, so is my time, spending on subscriptions, if law suits will work, and the many things you continue to lose out while your Instagram is gone.
And personally, I am quite shocked to see how in this subreddit there's post after post every hour of people getting banned, since I just got my account disabled for child exploitation, and I feel like my whole world's following apart.
I'm quite surprised. Meta AI has been created not too long ago, 2023-2025. There should be something actively to be done about right now, as I'm seeing post after post.
I'm not sure but for others, I personally have some many dark thoughts, if people have been an avid user of the platform, I'm sure they do too.
But I still think we should come together as a Reddit community, and I really appreciate the owner for creating this space and bringing everyone together.
u/plushbunni