Yet another reason not to study there. Ideological screening, what a joke.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Brain drain away!
Delete all social media problem solved
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.
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.
.... but isn't Lemmy social media? And you're here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)
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.
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
anarchist!
I know nothing about how it works but won't immigration check account age for their legitimacy?
I've heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of "friends" referred to as "antisocial media".
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.
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.
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.
Trump, Job Creator 🤷♂️
You can buy accounts.
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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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.
What the hell, I went to check the official website for my embassy and this is true??
Yep, here's a US government source.
*social media accounts that they know of