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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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As someone who doesn't have any social media, aside from this place, I always wonder what the reaction would be to me.
from my experience dealing with nosy wouldbe-employers and being on an immigrant watchlist:
they don't believe for a second you don't use social media; and if you don't, then you did at some point, and they'll find it; and if they don't find it, then that's suspicious, because obviously everyone uses social media, so you must be a criminal, using some dark web social media. and then you get credit checked forty times, only for them to find you have no debt and thus no credit score, and then they just assume you're not a real person and call the cops.
Lemmy is a leftist platform, the devs literally calls themselves "Marxist-Leninists", so everyone here is guilty by association, they don't care about tankies vs anarchist vs Social Democrat vs Neoliberal, to the far right, you're all Maoists/Stalinists, which means you're kinda fucked lol.
Maybe if you were using reddit, and didn't post anything political, you could pass as an apolitical normie.
FTFY.