Lol, jokes on them. Not only do I not use social media, but I also don't want to visit the US. Been there a few times. Never going back.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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I'm in this same boat. Unless you count Reddit, or Lemmy, they ain't finding shit.
Not that I want to go to that shit hole country.
Quit your social media, delete/rename your accounts, AND STOP USING YOUR REAL NANE ON THE INTERNET
Banned, 1000 years banned
Reminder people, this is a proposal and this tweet or whatever it is from Polymarket. If you don't know why you should immediately suspect anything posted by Polymarket, you have touched too much grass.
There is no current law or requirement to submit anything to do with your social media.
How to kill the entire United States tourism industry in one easy step
Create a Facebook account with your full name that is on your passport and just post endless cat memes and nothing else. Keep it active regularly and post at least once a week. Whenever you have a block of time, post dozens or hundreds of cat memes, and comment with other people about cats.
Maintaining this account will become mandatory if you want to travel from now on. If you want, do the same with Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. Just non stop cat memes.
Log on to these accounts when you go through immigration.
If you want to use Facebook \ Instagram \ Twitter \ YouTube with friends, use a second account that is not remotely connected to your real name.
User anonymous accounts for everything else.
Another alternative is don't visit the US
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Reminder to everyone already canceling their plans: this is a proposal and not even a very serious one because the logistics and legal changes around it could be a nightmare. This is more "some shit the Trump admin said" and not necessarily ever going to pass as law.
This tweet is from motherfucking polymarket and if you don't immediately suspect that source, you've gone too far and touched too much grass.
Lol .... I'm ojibway Canadian, an indigenous person from Canada. I speak my language fluently and I even read and write it (although at a very basic level).
The symbols you used are a variation of syllabics that we use to write my language.
I immediately tried to read it before realizing after a minute what you were doing.
Lol ... I had a good laugh about it
Bold of you to assume other countries won't start doing the same thing.
Authoritarianism is on the rise.
Yup. It's unfortunate. I want to visit the US but it had become one of the countries I would not visit alongside China because of Orwellian surveillance.
The surveillance in USA isn't remotely like China. Having spent time in both places.
And there's no law or actual requirement to turn over your social media history, this was some shit that Trump said, not a new law or bill.
isn't remotely like China.
Not yet.
I mean, we have cameras this big now --> o
We also have AI systems for parsing vast amounts of data and predicting human behavior, we have giant, international corporations using all of this tech. Are you in the EU? Are you in Canada? Or any "developed" nation? Because this isn't going to be a USA/China problem, this is going to be a worldwide problem as we shift globally to techno-oligarchy as a global ruling system.
Exactly this. On the plus side, Canada is a great country to visit too.
If you want to use Facebook \ Instagram \ Twitter \ YouTube with friends, use a second account that is not remotely connected to your real name.
You should do this anyway, whatever actually happens with this proposed bill.
Currently it's not a law or requirement to show anyone your social media history when arriving in the USA for any reason. But it's being "proposed" by the Trump admin. Which could mean anything. I suspect it won't make it very far towards being written into law because it's so utterly batshit and hard to build a legal system around.
If you have stuff like this. MAGA+swastika, or something that says Trump is a Nazi, is that considered bad though?
Because I assume people who support them have that stuff too.
Funny thing, they get to call themselves nazi as an edgy in-group point of pride, behind closed doors. You publicly calling them nazi for doing nazi shit is "hateful" rhetoric.
jokes on them, I don't use social media, other than LinkedIn, where it's sole purpose is for job/career stuff.
Not posting JD Vance memes to LinkedIn? Coward.
Just say you made it with AI to show that the future is now and LinkedIn will shit themselves for you.
insightful! 💡
Wait... is this not social media? What we are doing right now?
I mean, if I google my name, lemmy doesn't appear in any of the results. My personal info is not associated with my lemmy account. So, how would anyone know that I have an account? I don't even use gmail, and people are confused enough when I tell them that, let alone that I use something called lemmy.
This is an anonymous forum.
It's the antithesis to social media. We're all not socializing, but nerding over some topics nobody else is interested in. I don't know you and I won't know your user name five minutes after I've written this. And that's not meant to be an insult, I really like it that way. We're here for topics, not people.
Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/whatever is about people, and I hate it.
I’m guessing they consider reddit to be social media. Which means as a reddit clone, Lemmy would also be considered such.
Though I wonder if Lemmy is popular enough for them to know or care about it.
Fair, I am probably using it wrong, hehe. I definitely am picking up quite a few names and occasionally socialising. For me it's just the current platform nerds are socialising on until this one gets too popular/ruined and we have to move again.
I mean of course that's how we use it. It's just vastly different to the other networks, at least for me. The topic vs person difference is something I really enjoy though.
Lucky you, you're free to visit America!
So in 5 years these young tourists from the countries that banned kids from social media will do what? They were legally mandated to stay off. And since they are brainrot free why would they start? Hell, why would they come to the US?
Only the most deranged, cursed and absolutely hilarious. Wanna take a look?
I personally wouldn't want to do that.