I recently found myself banned from Facebook after my account got hacked (by some sort of known exploit) where they were able to somehow get my facebook account, sever it from my instagram account, bind it to another Instagram account – and proceed to shit all over the community guidelines over the course of just a few hours. I was actually logged in, mid-conversation with my friend on Facebook Messenger when it just kicked me out and told me I was a shameful person never to be allowed on Facebook again.
I actually wonder what kind of content would be so quickly used – was someone tricked into sending thousands of dollars to Nigeria? Did they use my account to talk to lonely middle aged CFOs ?
Sadly it was probably nothing so fun – but it was enough to earn me a permanent ban.
Because this is Facebook and there’s 0 support – I can’t even appeal because there is no workflow/account restoration process that factors in this scenario – where my account got bound to some other Instagram account. So alas, the past 20 years of social media are gone, save for a link to download this all into some esoteric structure that I’ll need to use an AI Agent to parse…. (hey THATs an idea for a project…)
Good riddance. Who cares?
I am taking this opportunity to restart my digital life very similar to how it started – on a WordPress blog hosted on a domain I bought (ernie.wtf). I even found the same hosting company I used to use (now hostineer.com) which seems to have grown and scaled with the times (cool to see!).
In addition to the blog, I’m hoping to reconnect with my web developer roots by taking on projects to setup a private cloud, as well as setup a Mastodon server so I can join the weird world of federated social media.
Honestly I have no clue how disciplined or how long I’ll maintain interest, but as much as I crave likes, retweets and shares – I think at this point I’d just like a semi creative – semi technical outlet – and share this with my friends and family as their interests’ get piqued by the often mundane, but sometimes absurd – stories and photos from my life.
Cheers
Ernie
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