Just for convenience sake, this should help clarify my thoughts more: https://lemmy.ca/post/43998271/16513594

Long story short, nobody should be detained like this, but this has been happening for months now and I care more about things overall than Hasan specifically.

It’d be like if the government started arresting smaller newscasters and Alex Jones got caught up in the mix. Overall would care about this happening to people, not Alex Jones specifically.

Honestly? You make a good point.

Perhaps in regards to that I’ve misjudged him, but there’s still a number of things I think he’s said and done that have done more harm to left-wing politics in the states than good.

Not that it does anything, but I’ve gone ahead and downvoted myself on the initial comment. I don’t like deleting posts I’ve made, even if my mind has changed since making them.

I agree to an extent, but regardless, editing 7-8 videos taking hours of work should be paid. That this wasn’t until he went to the community’s subreddit about it is ridiculous. Video editors doing work for you is something that should by default be seen as paid work, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone to do it voluntarily.

The guy shouldn’t have made the assumption he had an editor position in the bag and that this was a guarantee, but Hasan having received and published this work shouldn’t have assumed it to be free cause nobody does that. It’d be a completely different story if Hasan never published the edited vids.

Hasan exploited my labour for YouTube videos

Hasan agrees to pay YouTube editor after “exploitation” accusations - Dexerto

Nobody edits multiple videos for a name as big as Hasan voluntarily, and if they do, good for them. With common sense this should have been interpreted as paid work.

(If you’re even left)

This just in, people need to accept hypocrisy rather than call it out in order to be seen as left-wing.

God man, people really think that not rooting out the bad apples is going to help left-wing politics. That’s how you end up with Jimmy Dore being an anti-vax pro-Trumper and Ana Kasparian being a transphobe.

This has been happening for ages now with your average person, and now we’re supposed to care about how this happened to Hasan?

N.S. folk duo questioned about allegiance in U.S. traffic stop

At no point did I say I’m dismissing the precedent. The precedent was set months ago, and people are kidding themselves if they’re seeing Hasan as the first example of this.

All I’m going to say is how I’m sick of the fact that it takes the bad things to happen to a big name for Americans and people in general to give a shit, and while I do care about this happening to people in general, Hasan? Couldn’t care less.

I’m sorry, but he’s done more harm than good to how people view left-wing politics online.

This guy has trashed 9-5 job workers labeling their positions as being “easier” than being a streamer, all while he sits, talks, and leaves the room with the video running. He doesn’t edit his videos, other people do, and he’s on record refusing to pay them.

He decided to become a leading left-wing voice, and in being a massive hypocrite, has likely pushed people away from left-wing politics to be picked up by right-wing freaks who rightfully call him out. He’s on the record taking Russia’s side for invading Ukraine both in 2022 and 2014, has defended the Kai Cenat riot calling anybody who criticised him or the rioters racist, and many other such comments. I’m supposed to feel sorry for someone who likely contributed to people moving to the right, translating to more Republican votes, while under the guise as a left-wing figurehead? Yeah, no.

“O hey everyone it’s time to care about dead babies in Syria social media told me so.”

Go ahead and downvote me, just know you’re enabling those who push the Overton window to the right with their blatant hypocrisy.

Sorry, frankly don’t care about what happens to this good-for-nothing hypocrite.

Ah yes, lemme stand outside my mansion with an “Eat the Rich” T-shirt all while I refuse to pay my editors.

Asshat.

Huh, TIL.

My bad for being snarky then.

Okay? Then what exactly makes it the “global south” then?

Global South

Three countries situated entirely in the Northern Hemisphere in community icon.

Good point actually, I just try avoiding connecting my personal identity to my online one as much as I can since I like that separation so that only people I truly trust can see what I interact with.

I’m really touchy with my privacy online, almost to the point of paranoia to be honest.

On the one hand, I like that we have a Canadian email service.

On the other hand, being required to give my phone number for signup was an instant nope.

I don’t mind games being expensive like this if they’re new, have huge development budgets, and endless replay value. GTA VI, assuming it doesn’t disappoint on launch, will 100% meet all three of these points checked.

What I do mind are the endless microtransactions after paying nearly a hundred dollars for the fucking base game. Even then, that would be understandable if it was limited to cosmetics, but instead those transactions get you access to vehicles that, while fun to you, just ruin the experience for everyone else.

My reasoning for doing so in the community I mention is just because it’s a music community, and I really don’t want new people to the community getting the impression that they and their music tastes aren’t welcome, especially if the downvotes are coming from people blanket downvoting their All feed rather than from community members themselves.

This would likely just be with people I see who have a history of doing this according to modlogs, and not with regular users who happen to downvote a post.

Giving the thread a read, thanks!

If you’re a moderator of a community on Lemmy, you can view the upvotes and downvotes on posts for what I assume to be moderation reasons.

I don’t think it’s always hidden data and more dependent on the fedi software you use, since I do remember people a while ago getting upset with Kbin and their public upvotes and downvotes.

This was a long time back, but Blahaj Zone defederated with the LemmyNSFW community a while ago since LemmyNSFW had a community by the name of “Adorable Porn”, reason being that they thought it was content that appealed to pedophiles and the likes.

The community had some irl pornographic content with cutesy sorta vibes, mainly of petite women. The admins of Blahaj Zone basically demanded LemmyNSFW remove the community, or they would defederate since they thought it was reverse jailbait, adults made to look like minors.

The community description didn’t really help at all seeing that it had the term “child-like” there, which is likely what set the spark for the entire interaction, but it was copy-pasted from a dictionary definition. Also pouring fuel on the fire iirc was the fact that the admins of LemmyNSFW have English as their second language, so that might have also gotten in the way of things.

It’s been a while since this all happened, but from what I remember they removed “child-like” from the community description, but Blahaj Zone ended up defederating anyway still of the opinion that the community’s purpose was to appeal to pedos.

I just remember seeing this all go down cause for a time since I was windowshopping for a new instance to move to, and was using Blahaj Zone’s website to check what was posted to 196, and saw it the defederation notice stickied to the homepage.

Hot take, but these wouldn’t be half bad if you just tossed in some gravy

Eh, there was a situation a while ago with the LemmyNSFW instance that I felt was a bit much. However, the sidebar of the community they had issue with didn’t help LemmyNSFW’s case despite the fact it was a copy-pasted dictionary definition.

Thanks! Wish I was able to utilise this, but unfortunately I’m not in Europe. Will see if I can reach out to my credit union however!