Europe has great universities. Come study here.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Some even free too
make social media private
say "i don't have social media"
problem solved.
- gets rejected at the border because officer doesn't believe person doesn't have social media accounts
- ???
- no profit
Most based article from a Libertarian news site I've ever read.
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.
Yet another reason not to study there. Ideological screening, what a joke.
Delete all social media problem solved
Can't proved they have been deleted and can't prove you don't have more.
Problem created.
And what if I have Instagram but I don't publish anything on it? lol
Brain drain away!
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.
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.
Trump, Job Creator 🤷♂️
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.
.... 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.
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!
Yes? Anything I can help you with?
I know nothing about how it works but won't immigration check account age for their legitimacy?
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'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)
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.
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
¯\(ツ)/¯
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
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.