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.
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)
Closer to forums than IG. Anything old school deserves to not be bundled in with the rest of “social media”, so in that regard I get it. We still have handles though.
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.
… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)
I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.
posts pictures of moths or beans or bread
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Yes? Anything I can help you with?
I know nothing about how it works but won’t immigration check account age for their legitimacy?
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 also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.
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.
So an applicant with dangerous people in their life, maybe an abusive family member or a stalker ex, is forced to expose their accounts they would otherwise keep private. That’s the first bad-case scenario that comes to mind, I’m sure there are more.
I propose a new rule - if so for me, then so for thee. Anything imposed on legal applicants is also imposed on the lawmakers who put it in place.
There is no rule against deleting accounts, my friend.
But one shouldn’t have to.
applicants for several kinds of student visas would be required to "adjust the privacy settings on all of their personal social media accounts to ‘public’
They are so ridiculous.
But ofc it’s not going to happen. They can lick my.
It already is happening. Source: a person getting a visa now-ish.
I can’t believe there are still people saying stuff like this won’t happen.
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.
What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??
Yep, here’s a US government source.
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.
@DarkFuture@lemmy.world
@return2ozma@lemmy.world That’s a pretty short sighted view considering just ~150 years ago the Democrats were the party against abolishing slavery. Times change, but American politics really don’t.
Limiting the choice to the lesser of two evils only benefits one of the classes in the real fight. As Alaska (since 2022) and NYC (this week) have shown, RCV allows voters to select who they really want to lead regardless of whether polls say they are “wasting” their vote.
You’re not wrong, but most of us don’t have the benefit of ranked choice in our jurisdictions. Until we can get that, I’ll continue to vote against the greater evil.
I dream of being able to one day vote for something instead of being forced to vote against something.
Well yeah but you have to get RCV first. But for the rest of us in FPTP land, we make do until enough of a movement for RCV is built — and you can’t build a movement for RCV while basic rights are being stripped away and you’re spending all your cycles on the back foot defending those and putting out fires. Eh, who am I kidding… The damage is irreparable, current Democrats (unless the party gets taken over by Mamdani clones) will just do their ratchet shit again and cement this as the new normal because they’re fucking useless.
In FPTP, not voting the lesser evil gives you the greater evil. It’s dead simple, but I’ll be the first to admit it’s a damn hard pill to swallow for us idealists (I should know, I was a Jimmy Dore fan in 2019-2020, took me ages to see through faux-left grift because it preys on idealism and perfectionism).
This will be a boon for stalkers.
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.
United States schools have many advantages over European ones. For example we don’t need a lengthy unit on WW2 era Germany, you get it for free by walking outside.
“Yeah, I don’t have one. Cheers.”
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like they’ll belive that
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
Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to 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”.
Shouldn’t the burner be the whiter one?
i meant that whatever you show them, if you’re white they’re gonna say it’s a real account, if you’re black you’re gonna get accused of showing them a fake second account
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.”
“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.
That country want to be alone, so leave them alone!
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.
