How to (gently) tell people I literally cannot access any Instagram content?

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

How to (gently) tell people I literally cannot access any Instagram content?

Or fuck it, how to (mercilessly) mock them for still using it?

[jdm2@boriken.social]

@afreytes “I am banned from instagram” and proceed to talk shit about Zuck. That’s my go to.

[laurel@social.lol]

@afreytes I just tell them that Instagram doesn’t work on my phone so I can’t view whatever they have sent me.

[mattmoose@mastodon.world]

@afreytes
I'm in the same boat.
Ppl have my phone number if they really want me.
Nobody's bothered enough to call it. No loss.

[mycorrhiza@post.lurk.org]

@afreytes Some friends still send me IG reels after I’ve told them a hundred times “I’m sure this is cool or funny but I literally cannot view it.” Maybe they think I’m just doing a bit?

Meta is clearly using fingerprinting hijinks to know the difference between “IG user in an incognito window” vs “IG account-deleter in an incognito window.”

[jwo@mastodonczech.cz]

@afreytes Start providing your content exclusively via fax.

[crowsinger@wandering.shop]

@afreytes see also: Facebook

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Crowsinger Yes, everything from Meta.

But strangely, since I exitted whatsapp and facebook I have never gotten any instances of peeps telling me to login or sending me WA or FB links.

Instagram is the only one I still get a few people who insist on sending me link even though I have (gently) told them (which is true) that I cannot see their content anymore.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mycorrhiza Yes, that is also my experience.

And it's somehow even worse on mobile, the meta links will sometimes hang the page.

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@afreytes "Facebook? Ew"