Screenshot of Facebook sign-up form showing my full name entered in a form where other personal information has been redacted. At the top is the error message shown after the form was submitted. It reads: “We require everyone to use the name they use in everyday life, what their friends call them, on Facebook. Learn more about our real name policies.”

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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 00:52:01 JST Aral Balkan

   We’re moving to a new city and the only community I can find for it is on #Facebook.

   So, as much as I don’t want to, I decide to make a Facebook account again just to access this community…

   (This is why communities must not be locked behind the walled gardens of surveillance capitalists. But even if we create fedi/Small Web alternatives, we still need to let the existing ones know they exist somehow.)

   …Anyway, long story short, I can’t – they’ve #blacklisted my name :)

   O hai, Mark! :Wiseau: