“I don’t use social media and never have.”
So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn’t agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don’t have social media?
We have the stupidest people in charge right now.
There are plenty of schools in Europe. There is no reason for essentially the equivalent of 1930s Jewish people to study in essentially Hitler’s Germany in the 30s right when the smarter people were getting out.
Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to come here?
Imagine a country, they spent billions over the last two centuries to build influence and they got to the top. Foreigners are willing to pay thousands of dollars for getting a degree in such country but no, let them go to a different country and get influenced by somebody else
You know, when I got my current job, the people in my department said"we tried to find your Facebook but couldn’t" and I said 'yeah that’s because I don’t have one."
13 years later, still don’t.
Though honestly even our work teams chat would probably be too spicy for these motherfuckers. They just want a pretext to keep out anybody. Like some law impossible to follow, that they can selectively enforce.
That country want to be alone, so leave them alone!
“Yeah, I don’t have one. Cheers.”
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People are missing the point here. Its not about this being a valid strategy to catch anyone but its a fascist strategy to display who’s in control over you when you come here.
well, have burner social media accounts as well
They say they will find those “with AI”. And they will, for true or for false, because they only want another weapon to use against the “undesirables”.
How many false positives will it have when trying to find accounts for John Smith
“What do you mean this 5 year old account has no posts?”
“Work made me get one, but the UI gives me headaches. I think it gives everyone headaches really.”
Because it’s completely impossible to create a fake account that worship trump and has a lot of maga posts
Its not about logic it’s about fascism - they want everyone to know who has power on you even if it doesn’t actually do much in practice.
It’s going to be weird when there’s no handle or social media at all. I nuked my social media around 2020/2021, I was legit tired if people posting travel pics and pretending everything was alright. Oh by the way one could make a fake page just for this, but deep down we know we don’t care.
If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.
I imagined. Probably it’s better to have a public one where you have the kind of things they want to see.
Actually they ask for the last five years, deleted or not.
… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)
If you loosely follow the definition of social media to mean “Website where you can interact with people in any way” then yes.
But I think the average colloquial use of the term social media really refers to websites where you make a real life personal profile and share things on that profile. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. You as the individual are the focus of those types of sites.
The (original at least) point of sites like Lemmy and Reddit is sharing information where you as an individual are not the focus. Hence posting to communities rather than your own wall or profile, the use of usernames over real names etc.
Lemmy is social media, but when people say “social media” they’re typically referring to one of two things. They either mean all social media including legacy forums or they mean media that is directly tied to their real names.
Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.
I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.
How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?
Well well this is a recent account after all, so it is possible. Also, I do have a public social media, but it’s either used for messaging or it’s empty (follow - only).
(they mean Lemmy is social media)
Nuke accounts 2021
Create new accounts 2022
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It’s so sweet that we want to act like anyone cares about our Lemmy history.
I mean if there was anyone harasses IRL for posting here, hit me up with a link.
But comparing Facebook to Lemmy is kind of funny.
Ah damn, I was a state actor who was going to smuggle in sleeper agents to perform sabotage and espionage in the US, but I can’t figure out how to create a fake social media profile. I admit defeat.
At least you’re not a teenager that has ever expressed any sympathy for Palestinians. Those are the real threat.
Trash country continues circling the drain.
Remember folks, always vote against Republicans in the most likely manner to prevent them from having any level of power.
What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??
Yep, here’s a US government source.
Marco Rubio, take this authoritarian bullshit back to Cuba you stupid, fucking anchor baby.
