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An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by jokoon »

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.

I still use multi-reddits but the front page is a shit show of violence and outrage, things like /r/publicfreakout etc and other non-wholesome content, which are generally politically divisive.

The multi reddit allows me to browse only subreddits I like, and it's much much better this way. Digg did not have that.

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

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Post by ASalazarMX »

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.

Even worse, many Reddit videos are screen recordings of platforms that disallow saving videos, like Tik Tok, Instagram or Facebook. This whole issue is Kafkaesque.

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

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Post by DynamicStatic »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #110
fffffg wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

You are right, being a moderator is a lot of pain once the subs grow beyond a certain point. Furthermore as a moderator you are almost forced into using new reddit as well as the tools are not all there in old. Painful experience.

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

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Post by grishka »

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…

I take it you haven't heard about the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension...

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Post by insulanus »

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…

> But Reddit is moving towards first party content.

I just want to point out the extent to which marketing doublespeak has infected the world.

A person from the 1990s might think that this means redditors making new content. But in this case "moving towards first party content" means "copying the interesting part from your site, to my site, and making it so it can't be copied again".

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Post by sathackr »

haskal wrote: post #240
sathackr wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you recently tried to share a link with someone? There's so much tracking shit appended onto the end of the link that by the time they get it and whatever url parsing algorithm their device uses maims it, the url is no longer in tact and trying to click it brings you to a broken page. I make a concerted effort to remove all of that before sending, but Google et. al. are working very hard to make that harder and…

> and trying to click it brings you to a broken page. Can you give an example of this (with the real link to compare)? Tracking info can be added to the URL but should not break the page. There are extensions and addons that remove the tracking data for you, you might want to give them a try.

It's not the tracking info that breaks it, it's that when the receiving device tries to parse the long url and figure out what part is a link and what part is just text, winds up with a broken link.

I'm not able to find an immediate example but usually happens when sharing links via a format that doesn't explicitly format them as links, such as SMS

As a rule I don't install any add-ons or extensions. Because a trusted extension today can become malicious tomorrow as has happened so many times.

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Post by vxNsr »

esperent wrote: post #39
herbst wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some youtuber explained the breakdown of Reddit in parts with yahoo banning nsfw from Tumblr and their community suddenly looking for new safe places (hence the big banning on Reddit began at the same time)

I really don't think it's the communities on Reddit that are the problem. I mean, yes, some communities there are problematic, but way more are great. The problem is the site owners. They are growing increasingly user hostile.

Every default sub is toxic these days. Toxic in exactly the way tumblr was. Both due to moderators and the people who spend the most time there. I would venture to say any sub with >100k users is also pretty toxic.
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