Here a message from the Betterbird CEO:
Dear followers of the Betterbird blog,
You may have asked yourself why we're self-hosting our own blog instead of publishing on social media to potentially reach a wider audience. The reason is simple: One of my principles is to only publish on media which I control, or at lease have moderator status, like on Reddit. I considered creating an account on Instagram, but was concerned about being affected by some random unjustified decision of the platform operator. Sadly, today this fear became reality as my personal Instagram account was blocked, stating that (quote): [the] account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards.
That's totally surprising since the last post was made in more than two years ago, in January 2023, and the last trivial direct message sent was 50 days ago. So which activity were they referring to? 1.5 hours later the account was unblocked again after I had submitted a whole lot of personal data, including a selfie. Horrible.
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