And what if I have Instagram but I don’t publish anything on it? lol
This will be a boon for stalkers.
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.
“Yeah, I don’t have one. Cheers.”
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like they’ll belive that
Most based article from a Libertarian news site I’ve ever read.
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.
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… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)
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.
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.
I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “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.
I know nothing about how it works but won’t immigration check account age for their legitimacy?
posts pictures of moths or beans or bread
anarchist!
Yes? Anything I can help you with?
If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.
Actually they ask for the last five years, deleted or not.
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Tomorrow there’ll probably be a service to do exactly they. Give them a few pics and they’ll deep fake an entire account for you.
Trump, Job Creator 🤷♂️
Not American jobs, mind you…
That’s an excellent idea, particularly because that service would use AI against the type of people who typically shill or welcome AI products. Let’s build more of those.
You can buy accounts.
How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?
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(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.
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.
Nuke accounts 2021
Create new accounts 2022
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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
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
“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.”
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.
Are kids living under helicopter parents that want them to study abroad even allowed to have a social media account by the parents?
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.
*social media accounts that they know of
I question this, and really, their availability.
With prep-time, any prosecutor and crew could dig up every tiny detail about you in about a week, including every single site any related IP addresses to you have been to and how much time you spend there and all of your dns queries.
But here, on the spot. “You tell us”.
Their lack of effort is correlated to the amount of spite they have for any individual person. It’s like using a magnifying glass. If they actually gave a shit, they wouldn’t have to ask.
What happens if you don’t have any social media? I haven’t posted under my name on anything in a decade…
Honestly speaking I see a future where people like us are left out of an integral part of the economy.
Many jobs will already disqualify applicants if they don’t have any social media, or refuse to provide account names. The rise of cancel culture means many businesses are extremely risk-averse, and don’t want any employees who are prone to posting inflammatory things.
I would think that having no social media is a good thing for employers then…
The issue is that they assume “I don’t have social media” is a lie. They assume it’s really just code for “I refuse to tell you what my username is.”
You will have to disclose your lemmy account.
Welp here it is.
I love trump!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if a random immigration official knows about your anonymous lemmy account you were already mega-fucked on the immigration front. They’ve been watching you and probably have a 3 inch thick file on you before you walked in the door.
Why the hell would anyone apply for a visa to come here?
