I’m a performer, so I need my account for work and to book gigs. I’ve been locked out for almost a month due to a platform bug, and have tried and exhausted every possible avenue of support.
I’m a performer, so I need my account for work and to book gigs. I’ve been locked out for almost a month due to a platform bug, and have tried and exhausted every possible avenue of support.
Not trying to be an ass here but if you rely on services like this for your living, having the rug pulled from under you shouldn’t come as a surprise.
We live in a society. In order to target certain people, you have to go to the services that they are using. Nobody doing this shit WANTS to use Insta.
The performer pages on FB are FULL of performers complaining about IG. No one likes this shit. Virtually every performer and show page ends up getting shadowbanned, restricted, permanently demonetized, or banned. It’s a shit show.
If there’s that many of you, then make something specific for your line of work. Make it a pixel fed instance, and use what working accounts you have to lure people to your site when they’re looking for performers.
Make it semi-centralized, don’t just all spread across the fediverse. It seems like a solid strategy to me /shrug
You may not be trying, but I’m afraid you are succeding. It is surprising when basic functionality like logging in, doesn’t work.
Unfortunately Facebook and Instagram is almost essential for small businesses to get off the ground. It’s not that they rely on the service, they rely on word of mouth, and word of mouth spreads better on mass social media than anywhere else.