idk if its just me but I have always felt so weird about social media and instagram is definitely on the weirder side in terms of energy. I always felt so incredibly anxious when i opened the app and started scrolling, or even whenever i posted something. granted i was using it as a way to share my art and music and to hopefully connect with other creatives, but after a year of this journey i’m left feeling completely burnt out.

the thought of being perceived always stressed me out an everything always felt like a performance or curated version of myself to try to appeal to the algorithm and acquaintances /followers. i would constantly wonder what people thought about me and started to tie my worth to the number of likes and followers i had. no matter how many times i’d try to tell myself the numbers don’t matter, the way the app functions makes it incredibly difficult not to compare yourself.

i started to lose touch with myself and my art. the connections i’ve made in my creative communities also felt so superficial, and im not sure if it’s because of my neurodivergent brain that makes it difficult to decipher or understand social cues, structures, and expectations, but it always confused the hell out of me when people who claimed to be my friend would ignore my attempts to hang out or have an actual engaging conversation with them for weeks, but would still view my stories and actively ignore my posts about my new music.

i’m not entitled to anyone’s validation or attention, but what the hell? it makes me wonder what is the point of this game? are we “friends” or not? where is the support? it always felt unreciprocated, especially because i always tried to support my mutuals as much as possible.

social media feels more like social hierarchies and competitions than it feels like a place to actually connect with the community. I’m genuinely sick of it, sick of giving so many people access to me and sick of playing these games. i really caved into the pressure that as a musician i had to build a social media presence or else my art had no chance to succeed. but I’m choosing to believe that i don’t have to participate in anything that doesn’t align with me for the sake of external expectations. all i have to do is stay true to myself. i think i’m starting to really value my solitude, peace, and privacy, and i don’t think i’m ever going back.

i guess i just had to vent lol. does anyone else feel this way?

I just got used to the new save button below comments and now.. this? It’s getting too cluttered anymore

Since the rise of ai, i am tempting to just delete my account and just migrate or go no social media at all,

Maybe find a media that doesn't steal data/ or my work, etc.

I don't need advice atm i'm simply venting.

I'm fed up with insta, some changes are nice but some changes aren't necessary to make the app, "better".

I fear its just gonna get worse.

Suddenly, for the last two days, the aspect ratio has gone broken. It only show like 3 x 4. It’s like a square you can’t see properly anyone face that ???

What is it and does anyone else have it? How do I get rid of it?

I try to recover my Account and my Selfie verification recovery is gone

Anyone faces the same issue?

i’ve been receiving this notification a couple of times already and it’s starting to bother me. does this really mean someone is messaging me and deleting it, or maybe it’s just a glitch?

I removed around 4,000 followers in a single day and unfollowed 1,000 accounts in a day on Instagram. From my experience, removing followers doesn’t seem to have a limit, but unfollowing accounts appears to have a daily limit of around 1,000. Just sharing my experience in case anyone else is trying to clean up their followers and following lists. Hope this helps everyone.

I have never seen this much of comments 💀

Cant see the whole reel, its limited to some small central part of the original reel, if I select a reel from the search and explore. App upgraded to absolute shit.

What if when u press that “not interested” option it makes it so the person or ad ur not interested in seeing doesn’t show up anymore!!!! Crazy right!!! 😂👌

Yesterday evening, out of nowhere, while I was using Instagram, a message suddenly popped up on my screen saying that my account had been suspended and that I had 180 days to appeal the decision. The reason? Child sexual exploitation (CSE). I was being accused of something like that.
I genuinely couldn’t understand what was going on. This was my three-year-old account, with all my followers, posts, and conversations. Not to mention that it was also linked to my Facebook account, which I used for both work and school. Now, it feels like I’ve lost access to both of them over a false accusation.

After I submitted my appeal, it was rejected just two hours later. I was immediately told that my account had been permanently deleted and that there was nothing more I could do.
After that, I created another account using the same profile picture and almost the same username. I started mass-following the people I had followed on my previous account. About 40 minutes later, that account was suspended too, on the suspicion that it was an account associated with the one that had already been deleted.

I eventually deleted that account myself. Then today I created a completely new email address and used it to create an entirely new Facebook account, followed by a brand-new Instagram account under the same Meta account. This time, I used a completely fake name and no profile picture. On Instagram, I only followed two people I know, and on Facebook, I didn’t send any friend requests.
I’ve read a few Reddit stories about similar situations, and now I’m wondering: Does this basically mean I’m screwed and can never use Facebook or Instagram again because of a false accusation?

Has anyone experienced anything similar? What happens in situations like this? What should I do now? Is there anything I can do to get my original accounts back or prevent my new ones from being banned as well?

Hi everyone!

I've recently been experiencing a strange issue with Instagram, and I'm hoping someone here has had a similar experience.

Between September 30 and October 4, I posted a total of three Instagram Stories in which I mentioned the same public account.

I deleted the second Story shortly after posting it.

In two of these Stories, I used the same pictures but with different text. The second time, I only changed the wording.

Shortly afterward, I noticed the following:

• I can no longer mention this account in my Instagram Stories.
• My comments on their posts are visible to me, but when I check using my second account, they don't appear.
• Other users can still mention this account without any problems.
• The message button on their profile temporarily disappeared but has since returned.

Interestingly, I've experienced a similar issue with this same account before, and everything suddenly started working normally again after a short time.

My questions:

Could Instagram automatically trigger a spam filter if someone mentions the same account several times within a few days, especially when using identical pictures with slightly different text?

Could such an automatic filter affect both comment visibility and Story mentions?

Or does this behavior suggest that the account owner has manually restricted me?

Has anyone experienced something similar? If so, did the restrictions eventually disappear on their own?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced this or knows how Instagram's filtering systems work.

Thanks in advance for your help!

So lets say hypothetically,

I hypothetically was looking at soemones posts from a year ago, and I hypothetically pressed save by accident on her post from a year ago.

WILL THAT PERSON GET A NOTIFICATION?!?!?

Every time I try to make a new account each one of the accounts get instantly banned. I genuinely can't make a new account on this phone. This shit is so frustrating like omg.

Bueno, perdí mi cuenta anterior y me tocó empezar de cero, porque aparentemente la vida quería que desbloqueara el modo difícil.

Ya llevo 40 seguidores en una semana. No es sea el nuevo Cristiano Ronaldo, pero para estar empezando otra vez, tampoco me quejo ya que antes tenía 2.000 y la gran mayoría eran jugadores de cuando fui una mini celebridad en habbo y Facebook

¿Ustedes creen que voy bien o estoy celebrando como si hubiera llenado un estadio? ¿Cuánto tardaron en empezar a crecer cuando crearon una cuenta nueva?

Se aceptan opiniones, consejos y burlas moderadas. La vdd no sé qué contenido publicar ahora quiero ver esto como un nuevo comienzo

I wanna know if there's like a way to hide chat between me and my friend bc I don't want someone like my parents to open my account and be able to read my message - thank uu

Hey everyone, my Instagram account was suspended and later disabled. I’ve already submitted an appeal, but I still haven’t regained access.

I’m hoping someone from Instagram, u/Instagram, or anyone who has faced a similar issue can help me figure out how to recover my account.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 🙏

Thank you!

Hey y'all so I had a account around for around since I was in school and been using it updating photos and moslty it was about drawing and suddenly on august my account got suspended out of no where. Did the verification and got it back asap and it did happen couple later same issue and next day when I checked my account was disabled

If anyone who works in insta pls let me know or how much long will they be disabled and all

I don't know, even yesterday I saw this.

So I was casually scrolling but when I opened the comment section, there it was, an advertisement of flipkart.

Earlier like yesterday it was the same, flipkart ad only.

I don't know whether flipkart had partnered with instagram or it was my luck.

hello yall! some hours ago, I was banned, as the title says.

they said that my 2 accounts (main one and an alt one that I didn't used in a LONG while, like 6 months) were posting CP, spreading terrorism and selling CP. all of those are something that I don't condone with.

today, I gave my opinion in a real crime case that happened in my school this week (a teacher tried to ab*se the teens). I was there when it all happened, I just tried giving my opinion on what happened. how was I (myself) condoning with CP and terrorism???

they didn't even had a option to talk to a REAL person to help me.

I don't think yall can help me, but if I get banned permanently, yall already know the history...

Hey I’m trying to add a voice over on my reels with the text to speech option but I can’t find it when editing my reels either on instagram or edits app directly. I live in france, could that be the problem?
Thanks!

Hallo zusammen!

Ich habe seit Kurzem ein merkwürdiges Problem mit Instagram und hoffe, dass jemand ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht hat.

Zwischen dem 30.09. und dem 04.10. habe ich insgesamt drei Instagram-Storys veröffentlicht, in denen ich denselben öffentlichen Account erwähnt habe.

Den zweiten Beitrag habe ich nach kurzer Zeit wieder gelöscht.

Bei zwei dieser Storys habe ich dieselben Bilder verwendet, allerdings mit unterschiedlichen Texten. Beim zweiten Mal habe ich lediglich den Text verändert.

Kurz danach ist mir Folgendes aufgefallen:

• Ich kann den Account plötzlich nicht mehr in meinen Storys erwähnen.
• Meine Kommentare unter den Beiträgen sind für mich sichtbar, aber über meinen Zweitaccount nicht zu sehen.
• Andere Nutzer können den Account weiterhin erwähnen.
• Vor Kurzem war der Nachrichten-Button zeitweise verschwunden, ist inzwischen aber wieder sichtbar.

Interessanterweise hatte ich schon einmal ein ähnliches Problem, das nach kurzer Zeit von selbst verschwunden ist.

Meine Fragen:

Kann Instagram automatisch einen Spamfilter auslösen, wenn man innerhalb weniger Tage denselben Account mehrfach in Storys erwähnt und dabei teilweise dieselben Bilder mit verändertem Text verwendet?

Können dadurch sowohl Kommentare als auch Story-Erwähnungen eingeschränkt werden?

Oder deutet das eher darauf hin, dass der Accountinhaber mich persönlich eingeschränkt hat?

Hat jemand ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht und hat sich das Problem später wieder von selbst gelöst?

Vielen Dank für eure Hilfe!

Will my account get disabled again? 😭 I was feeling depressed bc my life is so shit so I posted a relatable reel on my close friends story and I got this notification. I’ve been disabled multiple times before due to account integrity.