• @[email protected]
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    12211 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      7911 days ago

      If you say that you have no social media accounts they will probably assume you’re lying and deny you.

      • @[email protected]
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        1111 days ago

        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).

    • @[email protected]
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      2211 days ago

      … but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)

      • @[email protected]
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        2111 days ago

        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.

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        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.

      • JackbyDev
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        410 days ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 days ago

        Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.

  • katy ✨
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    3410 days ago

    make social media private

    say “i don’t have social media”

    problem solved.

    • @[email protected]
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      2710 days ago
      • gets rejected at the border because officer doesn’t believe person doesn’t have social media accounts
      • ???
      • no profit
      • wastelandpilot [She/Her]
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        2310 days ago

        I imagine this is what will happen even though it’s absurd. Like it’s actively going to become detrimental to not be trackable via an online presence connected to your identity because there are people who are mad that you won’t let them invade your privacy. Lol

    • @[email protected]
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      810 days ago

      That is a fucking terrible idea. If they later find it, they’ll lock you up and maybe later throw you out. The financial risk makes no sense.

      • Lemminary
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        59 days ago

        Then do it for real. Social media is kinda shit anyway.

      • y0kai
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        79 days ago

        Find what?

        I haven’t had “traditional” social media for years and what I did have has since been deleted, or so I’m told.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 days ago

        I bet the nazi’s will have fake “real” ones ready to go either way. When they want to take their current purge to the next level, you’re fucking done.

        don’t go to shithole america

        Actual problem solved.

  • @[email protected]
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    1010 days ago

    Are kids living under helicopter parents that want them to study abroad even allowed to have a social media account by the parents?

  • @[email protected]
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    3210 days ago

    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.

    • kreynen
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      @[email protected]

      @[email protected] 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.

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        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.

      • lemonaz
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        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).

  • @[email protected]
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    4210 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 days ago

      At least you’re not a teenager that has ever expressed any sympathy for Palestinians. Those are the real threat.

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      Some of them no longer allow foreign students and some of them charge an absolute fortune to foreigners.

  • Irdial
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    It’s because the morons running the country don’t think that constitutional freedoms apply to non-citizens. No freedom of speech if your speech hurts their feelings. Fuckin aye

  • Match!!
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    219 days ago

    Hello ICE agents, let me walk you through my DeviantArt account. And here’s my second DeviantArt account dedicated to the weird shit.

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      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    249 days ago

    What happens if you don’t have any social media? I haven’t posted under my name on anything in a decade…

    • @[email protected]
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      119 days ago

      Honestly speaking I see a future where people like us are left out of an integral part of the economy.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 days ago

        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.

          • @[email protected]
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            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.”

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        119 days ago

        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.