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It's quite funny for a content aggregation site to get all high and mighty about tools that make it easier to share and aggregate content.
It's been a while since Reddit was a content aggregation site. Right now, Reddit is an ad delivery and data collection platform built around a content aggregation core, the way a mouse trap is built around a cheese cube.
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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…
How many throways do you get through each day? Can you go attempt to fan the flames of culture war somewhere else?
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> 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 on…
Yeah, my wife scrolls /r/all, expands posts (some of them text posts), and closes them, possibly clicking into the comments to discuss. If, at any point, she accidentally follows a link, it really pisses her off It's nice to have videos, images, and short articles in a familiar layout I know I'm much more likely to click a recipe link if it's a self-post, because recipes on non-reddit websites always seem to be gated…
is it partially because new reddit is a SPA that just craps itself when going to a external link and loses where you were?
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Most people? Most people don’t know what AdWords is. Most people don’t think much of tracking if at all outside of when they are prompted about it. Or the one or two minor anecdotes they have of (sometimes coincidentally) seeing the same sort of ad on Amazon or Facebook.
?? I think you're absolutely wrong here. My boomer parents who can't setup a Smart TV and played blu-rays in standard definition for years absolutely know that Google and Amazon are tracking everything they do and have reached out to me on several occasions about reducing how much data Big Tech gets from them. I think you're totally out of touch with the general populace if you think average users don't keenly feel t…
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tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Because my machine is a phone
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Yeah, my wife scrolls /r/all, expands posts (some of them text posts), and closes them, possibly clicking into the comments to discuss. If, at any point, she accidentally follows a link, it really pisses her off It's nice to have videos, images, and short articles in a familiar layout I know I'm much more likely to click a recipe link if it's a self-post, because recipes on non-reddit websites always seem to be gated…
> If, at any point, she accidentally follows a link, it really pisses her off is it partially because new reddit is a SPA that just craps itself when going to a external link and loses where you were?
It's quite funny for a content aggregation site to get all high and mighty about tools that make it easier to share and aggregate content.
Since the redesign Reddit has been putting a huge amount of effort into keeping people on their platform. They've went out of their way to make it impossible to send a link directly to a video without external tools like the savevideo bot, any link to click will load the entire thread and they even go out of their way to seperate audio and video requests and merge them client-side so you can't just open dev tools to…
On something, anyway. Whenever Reddit tricks me into opting into the redesign I'm disoriented by just how much of reddit I cannot access. Following comment chains is a chore, getting all comments to a post impossible, instead every page is a duplicate of the front page with random barely related posts getting shoved in my face I already didn't care about the last three times reddit wanted me to.
Is the only metric developers are judged by the number of (intentional or even just accidental) top-post clicks per user?
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tl;dr use the damn youtube-dl. You still get your videos downloaded, you don't spam people who is discussing in the same thread, and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. If you don't want to download a python script to your machine (why?), then use any of the million youtube-dl-wrapping websites online or one of the hundred browser extensions. I'm 99% sure "SaveVideo" is just wrapping youtube-dl anyway.
Because my machine is a phone
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I already know - it's not quite a thing. It would be possible to delete the account and not the content. Frankly, who cares if it guts a thread. Individuals whose opinions change over time, or desire said privacy should have the opportunity to fully eliminate their presence.
I care if it guts a thread. Maybe add the ability to disconnect an account from a specific comment.