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An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by ProtoAES256 »

pjc50 wrote: post #97
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular, especially outside of the tech-sphere Spam. The target site may be spammy: lots of adverts, popup/unders, taboola "chumboxes" etc. Or, if a site can make money from inbound link traffic, there's an incentive for its owners to spam links in subreddits to drive traffic to themselves. > This is especially bad on apps where you need to know how to find the share option sep…

Apart from spam, scams too. Fake login pages, to the tech-illeterate are virtually indistinguishable from the real site.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by orra »

ffffffg wrote: post #68
kwinten wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're aware there is a difference between discrimination and categorization, right?

How does it apply in this case? The "truelesbians" subreddit wanted a place where biological females could discuss lesbian issues with biological females. This was not allowed by Reddit. The "lesbians" subreddit is a place where exclusively biological females are portrayed in sexually stimulating activity with each other (mostly for male subscribers to ejaculate to). This is allowed by Reddit. Both of these involve d…

Please. /r/truelesbians was banned for being transphobic.

Meanwhile, /r/actuallesbians continues unhindered, cause it's not transphobic.

> 'male lesbians'.

Nice dog whistle.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by squarefoot »

nicbou wrote: post #3

When a company grows large enough, the APIs and user-generated tools that propelled its growth get treated like a threat. They tend to vertically integrate and keep anyone from using their data.

"When a company grows large enough, the APIs and user-generated tools that propelled its growth get treated like a threat."

Pretty much everything that helps a company grow is seen like a threat when "it helped us yesterday, but now can help others". Just like the competition hypocrisy: small companies love competition and fully support it, then they grow and do whatever they can to destroy it.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by criley2 »

kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

>I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular

Tracking. Most people just assume that if you share a real link to a product, fourteen different quasi-legal shady third-party advertising profile aggregators will have that saved and loaded into your AdWords rotation and ready for Alexa to Bing you with within seconds.

I get that it's more complicated than that, and that E2E chat mitigates (but doesn't eliminate) advertising tracking risk, but a link is just so easy to track, and tracking is so ingrained into our digital experience, that it's just nice to share something and break the tracking while you're at it

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by criley2 »

atrus wrote: post #72
Crash0v3rid3 wrote: post #49

Reddit hosted videos have been such a joke lately. They are just ripped from YouTube and TikTok, almost always with out the creators permission.

Yeah, if I'm looking for a time waster, I'll start on Reddit, just by habit. Then I'll go to TikTok when I see the first one on Reddit. It doesn't take very long anymore these days. I remember people on Reddit making fun of facebook saying everything on there was on Reddit 3 days ago. The tables have turned since then.

I mean, Twitter out-did Reddit on that by 2012. Everything on Facebook and Reddit is just screenshots of Tweets.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by nathancahill »

remirk wrote: post #57
TheRealSteel wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Meanwhile, TikTok includes an official "save video" button...

But adds a clearly visible and annoying animated watermark.

So does Reddit for images.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular

It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way.

Reddit has become about rapid-fire content consumption without leaving the site. Following a link and actually reading an article for 5-10 minutes isn’t as exciting as rapidly consuming a few videos, a few screenshots, and a few self posts along with the top comments for the most interesting ones.

Even on HN it’s common to read comments where the author obviously hasn’t bothered to read the linked article. Many people are more interested in the social and discussion aspects of these sites than being redirected somewhere to read an article for several minutes straight.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by BoxOfRain »

fffffg wrote: post #47
BoxOfRain wrote: post #5

I really don’t miss Reddit, I’ve deleted the accounts I had there and am much better off for it. I’m not sure when the real tipping point was but that platform has really lost its way.

Reddit is very enthusiastic about handing out site wide bans these days. If you say the wrong thing on the wrong topic you can be permanent banned, whereas before you would just be downvoted or argued with. Same for subreddits being banned. But only when it comes to speech it seems, not picture or video. So, for example, we have the odd case of "truelesbians" subreddit being banned for being trans-exclusive, but "les…

A better example would be what happened with /r/ukpolitics and Aimee Challenor I think, it was a truly shameless display of how incompetent Reddit has become in recent years. The whole episode was an omnishambles, and a perfect microcosm of everything that's wrong with Reddit at the moment. It featured awful hiring practices, awful moderation practices, awful crisis management, awful PR management, and highlighted the piss-poor relationship that paid Reddit staff have with both the platforms's users and the volunteer moderators running what are in many cases enormous online communities in their own right.

Regardless of where they're at as a company, as a platform from the user's perspective Reddit been on a downhill trajectory for years. They manage to cock up moderation time after time, and every single UI change they make somehow manages to make the site even less usable. They'll double down on their crappy decisions in an enormously user-hostile way until literally the point users are in open revolt against the platform's staff which sometimes triggers a U-turn with all the grace and agility of an oil tanker.

This bad relationship between owners, moderators, and users often seems to kill smaller platforms (anyone remember Yik Yak?) but Reddit has so much inertia it's been taking literal years for this disease to become terminal. It will happen one way or another though, one day they'll make a decision too user-hostile and Reddit will have its very own "Digg V4" moment.

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