Good for the author to have connections within Meta to get this resolved. For anyone else, this would’ve been the end (and probably worse, if Meta did inform the authorities with whatever information it genuinely believed it had). In my experience, Instagram has more rogue bots and algorithms that ban accounts for nothing than Facebooking does.<p>I don’t get the author’s glee towards the end of the post. If the author’s livelihood depended on Instagram, sure, go back to the platform and be thankful the account was restored and that the connections in Meta helped. If not, time to move on. It’s not like Meta has been a benevolent corporation that deserves more chances.<p>BTW, other platforms aren’t safe against such actions either. The main competitor of this platform on the Fediverse has an official instance where your account could just go poof without any notices over emails, without any appeals process, without any response from the single admin, etc. I presume many Mastodon instances would operate similarly.<p>If your social media account is extremely important to you, your best account-and-content-preserving choice is to host it on an environment you control and hope that other instances don’t block you for their own random reasons.