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I have to create one for personal reasons. I know it's inherently un-private, but how can I maximize privacy while creating & using it without running into problems?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully someone has an answer! I don’t need instagram, but I miss it. There’s currently no better alternative for following fashion.

[–] 03ari 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

100% couldn’t agree more. No platforms can equal it because there are many people making high quality posts about all fashion related topics there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it possible to follow the same people on YT shorts or something where you have more control over your privacy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not very familiar with how YouTube works now, do they have hashtags or something similar to find people with the fashion I like? It’s been so long since I’ve used insta, I don’t remember who I followed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well afaik, most of the creators put their stuff up on shorts as well. And on YT you've the freedom of signing up with whatever email, using a VPN and adblocking services. Or you could totally use the popular frontends as well. And I've seen people use hashtags in shorts. I personally don't use hashtags much so I don't know if you'll experience the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I will take a look, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just accept that its not private, use the website (not the app), and don't upload anything that you aren't comfortable with being public.

You can also sign up with a burner phone number.

[–] cmbabul 2 points 1 year ago

I’m no expert but I would say get a purpose specific email with no similarity to your actual email, landscape as profile, only follow and communicate to the accounts you have to follow, if you can afford a second mobile device for it and no other personal info that would probably be wise. I’m sure someone will have better techniques I haven’t had an Instagram in a while so you may not be able to do some of those

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been using barinsta for a while now, and while it crashes sometimes and often takes ages to load my feed (I follow around 150 accounts) it's way better than the official app imo and enough to browse and occasionally react to my friend's messages. My one rule is to never post my face and I don't upload pictures of people in general, but I guess that depends on what you have to use it for. On and obviously no location tags in posts, but I don't think I have to explain that on a privacy instance ^^'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sadly barinsta development stalled over a year ago and in my case I get banned every time I use the app and need to do weird captchas on the official site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look for third party clients if you can. I don't know much about Instagram but third party clients are usually much better if they exist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

instagram aggressively bans all third party clients, so barinsta (android) and bibilogram (web frontend) has all stopped development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only winning move is not to play.