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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 OwlsParlay »

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…

Taking a screenshot on your phone is far easier than finding where Share is in your current browser. Sharing is a mess.

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

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Post by pototo666 »

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…

Interesting point, I am making a reddit clone in China. My MVP would like the very first verion of Reddit: only link sharing, no self-post or comment.

Fundamentally Reddit is not a link aggregator but a content aggregator. Link is one way to reach those contents. It is simple and scalable. But content consumers would always prefer first party content, ceteris paribus. One link away is one MORE step away. Faster solution always wins.

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

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Post by Sebb767 »

cik wrote: post #30
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.

If only the same freedom existed across all platforms. Like say HN. I do find it frustrating that the same freedom isn't accorded to you here.

Deleting them on HN does not delete them from the internet. Sites like Ceddit already save/archive deleted comments from Reddit (and make some old threads readable, especially when the poster of the solution deleted his account for unrelated reasons). If HN would bring on this policy, we would get a "CN" within a day; probably even something more complete than ceddit due to the smaller scale. So, in the end, it would only make HN a worse place.

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

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Post by rchaud »

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…

Subreddit moderators prefer first-party content instead of links, because all people do is fill subreddits with affiliate links or blogspam. Mods don't want to handle this, so they discourage external links completely.

In a lot of cases, a link will be posted, but the majority of the article text will be included in a message. So users can have a discussion without even visiting the page.

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

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Post by _hao »

_archon_ wrote: post #137
willis936 wrote: post #105

Friendly reminder that old.reddit.com is still up. I deleted the app this morning. Maybe old.reddit.com will be a nicotine patch.

While old. is an improvement, mobile accessibility is horrendous by design. It increasingly seems like the site has entered a profit-driven tailspin.

What about i.reddit.com for mobile?

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

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Post by Sebb767 »

reustle wrote: post #89
crossroadsguy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts.

> Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. It's less about scrubbing it from the internet, but scrubbing it from Reddit (or twitter, fb, etc) themselves. Even if some obscure content farm is hosting the comment, it's still a small fraction of visitors.

Yes, but that fraction is exactly the one you want to avoid. Someone who just reads a thread or searches for a solution will move on unhappy. Someone who wants to find dirt on you will dig through these archives and mirrors.

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

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Post by BoxOfRain »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #78
Theizestooke wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians

I've often wondered if AskHistorians wouldn't be better off as their own website?

Most subreddits would be better as things like HN in my opinion, a lot of the negative things to do with Reddit are down the way the platform is run rather than the format itself. A decentralised network where each subreddit is hosted independently and controlled wholly by its volunteer moderators rather than the (grossly incompetent in my opinion) side-wide administrators would solve many of the issues the Reddit format faces in my opinion.

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

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Post by CuriousCosmic »

ffffffg wrote: post #113
orra wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please. /r/truelesbians was banned for being transphobic. Meanwhile, /r/actuallesbians continues unhindered, cause it's not transphobic. > 'male lesbians'. Nice dog whistle.

Homosexuality is, by its very definition, same- sex attraction, not same-gender attraction. Aside from Reddit's double standard when it comes to subreddit bans, the fact that some people wanting to discuss their attraction to a particular sex is considered 'transphobic', is the wider problem here. It's not right that actual lesbians are getting harangued and then banned for not being interested in 'girldick' or whate…

> Not really, just biological reality. People can't actually change their sex (only their gender expression), so 'male lesbian' is a statement of self-contradiction.

This is where you are mistaken. You can change your sex with a sex reassignment surgery. While gender is identity based, sex is defined via the phenotypes (physical characteristics). If you make the alterations necessary to match the physical characteristics of a certain sex, you become that sex for all intents and purposes.

You may have different chromosomes than what is standard for that sex but by no means does that mean you aren't that sex. There are plenty of women who are born female, grow up female, present female, and identify as female who find out down the line that they have a Y chromosome. The same goes the other way with men who discover they have 2 X chromosomes.

I mean hell while not the exact same circumstance, something like 1 in 2500 males are discovered to have a karyotype of 47,XXY with the actual predicted prevalence (due to low rates of identification) being closer to 1 in 1000 or 1 in 500. The previously mentioned circumstances are of course less common than this (closer to 1 in 20000 or 1 in 80000) but in the context of the global population that is still a significant number.

My point being that sex is a lot fuzzier than most people realise and the only viable way of defining it is via phenotypes, which can of course be changed with medications and surgery. Defining by karyotype causes the entire definition system to break down because while chromosomes are of course important in determining your sex, they ultimately don't define it and there are so many other biological factors that play into you ending up whatever sex you are. And this isn't a "feel good" inclusive answer, this is just the scientific/medical reality because karyotypic/genetic sex just isn't a useful definition compared to phentotypic/physical sex.

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TLDR: It's not biological reality. Biological reality is that your sex is defined by your physical characteristics and while your chromosomes play a part in deciding which characteristics you develop, they don't provide a clean or consistent determination. If you sufficiently adapt your physical characteristics, for all intents and purposes both medically and otherwise, you are the sex your characteristics match.

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