kamoweasel on Nostr: I just made a fake Instagram profile just to test KYC policies. In one day, they ...
I just made a fake Instagram profile just to test KYC policies. In one day, they asked me for my email, profile ID picture, phone number, contacts, and a video selfie.
Not having provided any of these, they shut down the profile.
After NOSTR, we will no longer accept something like this.
Published at
2026-02-01 01:15:04 CETEvent JSON
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"pubkey": "9358c67695d9e78bde2bf3ce1eb0a5059553687632a177e7d25deeff9f2912fc",
"created_at": 1769904904,
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],
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"r",
"wss://nos.lol/"
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"content": "I just made a fake Instagram profile just to test KYC policies. In one day, they asked me for my email, profile ID picture, phone number, contacts, and a video selfie.\n\nNot having provided any of these, they shut down the profile.\n\nAfter NOSTR, we will no longer accept something like this.",
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