US boarder agents - show me you Facebook
ME: I deleted it in 2016
BA: okay show me your insta
ME: I don’t have insta
BA: wtf.jpg, okay Twitter?
ME: nope.
BA: visibly frustrated … Reddit then?
ME: deleted that account when they fucked over 3rd party apps.
BA: writing refused to comply, rejected.
Same, but if they’re trained to look for the Voyager icon I could be in “trouble”
But for now, this is the last place I can say it:
I hope Trump is hanged for treason and violently shits himself to death out of fear and panic in the seconds before the noose snaps. And then a buncha hand-scrawled notes confessing his pedophelia, sexual assaults, rapes, and love for AOC’s feet fall from his pockets
I think Signal has an option built it in to disguise the app as something else. Lemmy apps should start adding that function.
You can do this in android if you use a launcher.
Voyager does have a face-id-to-unlock feature that enable. But yeah, a facade icon/name would be awesome as well
They wouldn’t hesitate to hold it to your face to unlock it.
Passcode would be better, but I’m not sure the 5th amendment works at border crossings like it should.
From my understanding it does. The only thing is, that while they have to let citizens back in, they don’t have to let their phone back in
I think Android in general has a way of hiding certain apps.
I couldn’t find the options so I just don’t go to the US. Seems like the easier response.
Why not travel with a burner phone?
Because a lack of an account is likely suspect.
Burner account.
I’m putting a lot of effort into visiting the United States here. I think I’m just not going to bother.
Can’t speak to a Border Agent if you stay away from that shithole country.
*taps forehead
They want to make us all antifa terrorists if we’ve ever dissed capitalism or Christianity. Or christo-fascism presumably.
I don’t think I would be allowed in the US anyway. Given that my last 5 years of social media history is non-existent I suspect they would think I was being subversive.
You’re starting to make China look progressive. What are you doing?
Ditto re social media. I bet not having social media will get you discriminated against for being old.
What are you talking about? Your lemmy profile is over two years old… Lemmy is social media.
It’s not linked to my name though is it. So it’s not really about me.
Isn’t it linked to your name though? Like, you think your OPSEC is good enough for the Five Eyes not to know who is behind your Lemmy account? Kind of doubt it honestly…
Does the rest of Five Eyes still share shit with the US? They probably ought to stop that
Unclear to me, but I would assume sending poisoned data would be far more attractive than cancelling the agreement for either side. Until there are open hostilities at least.
You think the international intelligence community is tracking me do you. Also do you think the border agents have access to that stuff?
I’m saying they are tracking everyone they can, which is just about… everyone. Even if you do the best you can with encryption everywhere, running your traffic through proxies, and whatnot, your communications are still likely to be saved until decryption algorithms/compute catches up. Nevermind metadata which is probably all that would be needed to identify the average Lemmy account.
Do border agents have access to that? Probably not directly, but I would presume any visa application to be routed through intelligence services. And while those may not have reported a missing social media account before, you know with that not being a requirement at all, they sure might under this administration.
Is lemmy social media?
If not, i have no social media in the last 5 years except 1 post on facebook trying to rehome a dog.
I don’t consider reddit/lemmy as social media. The lack of ‘necessity’ of having your personal info plastered about and inserted into every exchange makes them something different. They’re just a different form of forum, in my opinion, with nested comments instead of a long chain.
Forums are a type of social media. It’s a media platform where you can be social.
Yeah I never really got the whole “forums aren’t social media” thing. Only difference I’ve ever seen is lacking a need for followers which I guess for a lot of people is enough.
I am a bit torn. I think social media has kinda moved from things like forums and chatrooms, to twitter/Instagram and so on.
Forums are a part of social media, but when asking about someones social media accounts or activity, you don’t really go to what forums they are on, it’s always ticktok or Facebook.
You could also say that comment sections under articles are social media as well, but that’s not the typical association with the term.
The term ‘social media’ became popularized when ‘online bulletin boards’ started to really incentivize building a strong personal profile (with lots of social connections, likes et.c.). Even if a traditional forum is technically social media, it’s not what we associate with the term and the psychology of using it is quite different.
You could also say that comment sections under articles are social media as well
I think that comes down to what the primary purpose of the site is. News media is mostly about disseminating information with their comment sections being a sad, withering afterthought where nothing of value ever happens.
But you can also be anti social and just bark on lemmy. So it’s not 100% social media (at least I don’t consider it as such).
I never considered reddit/lemmy social media myself. The anonymity of it just feels different. Just because im online doesnt mean its social media (to me.)
I can play video games online, and post in their group chats, but thats not social media either. I tend to draw the line around anonymity and topics. If were not talking about individuals, and their experiences, and interests, in the target to promote that person, i dont think its social media
100%, absolutely it is.
I’ve been vocally anti-american for nearly 10 years, but the real question is “why would I want to be friends with someone called ‘Tindertranslator’?”
Good wingman?
Given that Trump’s USA is no longer an ally to us in Europe, I’ll never set foot in that country again.
It’s not “Trump’s USA”, he’s just one tiny, orange facet of the same beast, which is world-wide (with USA being the source).
NVIDIA, Apple, Amazon, Walmart, et al find Trump very useful as he is motivated by greed alone.
You’re pretty naive if you think the US is the source, lol.
How so? USA is money central, the capital of the biggest since at least WW2.
I’m not saying the original source, I didn’t mean to imply that. I think that would be the banks if I had to pick just one.
Who do you think is the source today or how far do you go back?
Ha! I guess.
Based on what we learned in the very short window when Twitter let people see location information about specific accounts, I think we can trace a lot of Trump’s “grassroots” support back to Russia.
Russia has a much smaller economy, not even equivalent to California.
I think you give them too much credit, Trump even played a rich businessman on TV; he’s an “ideal” Republican candidate (name recognition and for sale to highest bidder)
Ahhh, you’re talking about economically, not politically.
Honestly, if you spend that much time on social media, would i want to be friends with you?
What has time to do with anything? You can spend one hour a month on social media and still make your disdain for Trump and MAGA clear.
Oh, i see you decided to misinterpret me on purpose. I’ll rephrase.
Why would i want to be friends with people that place such a value on social media?
Isn’t Lemmy a type of social media? I know they meant the popular apps, but in my opinion Lemmy is still social media.
Lemmy is antisocial media.
Do you think i put any value in this? For my actual life?
I can show them my social media stuff and give my DNA if Trump gives me the Espstein files without censorship.
I wish Charlie Kirk was alive to see this. Only so he could be shot through the throat. Again.
It will really depend on if the customs person knows what Jerboa is.
I wouldn’t volunteer that information…
Trump’sUSA. The USA is USA, fight backMy genetics already has me barred.
How about like 12, or whenever he announced his campaign?
I feel like if people like this person were in power, they would also start checking people’s social media for wrongthink. I found over the years that the people who care about social media the most tend to be the most fragile and sensitive people you’ll ever come across. Trump’s check this box, but so do so many other people.
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I’m a citizen, y’all can’t deport me.
Considering how ICE ignores things like “Due Process”, you won’t even get the chance to prove that you’re a citizen.
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trump can suck my dick
Careful there, he might take you up on that
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Mine would get me barred, which is why I deleted voyager and metatext from my phone as I prepare to travel abroad. If they want to look at the facebook account I have not updated the past decade, then whatever.
