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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 tolbish »

Sebb767 wrote: post #173
okdjnfweonfe wrote: post #21

just by sticking a watermark on their videos, making some unique authorship tools, and make their content relatively easy to mirror, tiktok has taken a massive chunk of video thoughtshare with comparatively little effort. I really don't understand reddit adding features that are just enough to kill off competition la video hosting, but not enough to be usable... OK maybe I'm starting to understand now.

> but not enough to be usable I actually don't understand this part. Trying to remove their external dependencies seems reasonable, but how would making them bad help? A part of it is surely dark patterns to keep users engaged (i.e. the limited comment depth), but some of it just looks incompetent to me.

If they were truly unusable, people would stop using reddit. The fact that reddit has more traffic than ever proves the initial assumption incorrect.

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Post by echelon »

crazygringo wrote: post #254
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…

In the case of Reddit, first-party content is better in almost every way. If I can scroll through content effortlessly, then it's easy. If I have to open each link in a new browser view/tab, ugh . Embedded images on Reddit load instantly, while loading an entire Imgur page takes forever. Not to mention that linked content is often ephemeral, whereas first-party hosting ensures it always stays viewable together with t…

And now that Reddit is attempting to capture every user they can, quality of discourse has fallen straight into the toilet. Not to mention the website constantly berates you to use the app.

I'd sooner suffer link rot.

I also don't appreciate the progression into carefully crafted doomscrolling. Content isn't so valuable that I'd sacrifice quality for quantity.

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Post by rkalla »

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 links is so unpopular...

Speed... it's always speed.

It's about 4 seconds faster for me to look at a screenshot to understand a friends "LOL!" than click a link, have browser load page, render page, render ADS and then I scroll down to find the picture of the dog riding a skateboard.

Speed speed speed.

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

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

JulianMorrison wrote: post #155

Reddit has gradually pessimized everything about its design and function. I am reinforced in my decision to walk away.

Reddit is 9gag now. Nothing is ever original content unless it's from a non-default subreddit. I remember when top comments were at least a paragraph. Now I see 1 word comments everywhere. It's basically becoming a forum agregator much like YouTube is now just a video hosting service. The communities are wastes of time and not worth devoting effort into. Just use them to get info you need and nothing else.

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Post by TheRealWatson »

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…

> is it just that people don't know where to find the links?

Speaking for my wife, she mostly browse and share stuff on her phone. It's much quicker and consistent to take a screenshot and share it than trying to discover/remember in each app what is the best way to produce a link to paste somewhere else (how many clicks to get a share link in the amazon app? how about the YT app? FB app, can you even do it?)

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Post by criley2 »

ses1984 wrote: post #154
criley2 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

?? 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…

Here's my anecdote to counter your anecdote. When I try to explain stuff like this to my family members, they barely humor me. Their eyes glaze over. They think I'm crazy. My sister-in-law works in marketing so she's kind of aware of it but has made zero changes to her behavior. Other friends tell me they get more benefit than cost and accept it.

Well here's some data to counter the anecdotes:

- 80%+ of Americans agree that there needs to be Data Privacy legislation controlling big tech https://epic.org/privacy/survey/

- Americans are rather in favor of breaking up big tech and popular anti-trust action continues https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/1/dfp_vox_tec...

- Apple has pivoted their iPhone advertising strategy to promote privacy against Big Tech (lol) as their #1 selling point

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

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Post by DynamicStatic »

Ashanmaril wrote: post #186
discordance wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry if this sounds obvious, but it’s the people within the subs that make it or break it. Some subs just don’t have those active people that make it gold.

Bad moderation can also drive away good people and good discussion. I still tend to keep up with most Android news on /r/android but the mods there went super full crackdown on moderation the past several years, constantly removing threads for minor infractions of the rules, and breaking up good discussion in the comments section of a post because the OP was breaking some rule or another.

I'll tell you the reason that sometimes stuff gets removed for "minor infractions" is because if you don't people keep doing it and referring to those things that are minor infractions. "why can they do it but not I?". It just causes drama and I think the majority of the moderators are doing it for free on their own time.
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