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

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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?

I still use old reddit and Apollo on mobile.

It has to do more with every other platform being hostile to embedded videos, especially on mobile. Nothing plays inline anymore.

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

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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.

>There are extensions and addons that remove the tracking data for you, you might want to give them a try.

Yes, but we are talking about why the average person just sends a screenshot. Insanely long links filled with tracking data that may or may not result in a clickable link on whatever app-browser-OS they are using is the reason. There is always a workaround for people that A: understand the problem, and B: care enough to find and use the workaround. But since the average person is not likely to pick this topic to use their limited time, energy and knowledge on, they go with the easy consistent option.

Whenever there is a problem and the two options are 1. have all individuals change their behavior or 2. fix the system so the better option is the easiest, the answer is always 2.

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

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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 that "link previews" are generally worse than a screenshot of the page?

Something like 90% of sites don't have proper meta tags that can be scraped for previews, and the ones that do you get blocked by Cloudflare if you try.

Usability is non-existent.

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

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

I use [Infinitey](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ml.docilealligator.infinityf...) which is FOSS. It's not perfect, but it has tons of features and settings. The maintainer is also very responsive and appreciates bug reports.

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

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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.

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…

You'd think that after having been the recipient of the Digg exodus when that site tried the same thing, but I guess memories are short and that was 10 years ago already.

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

Right-click being disabled in apps is one reason. Right-clicking being kinda hard to do on mobile is another. Also, oftentimes now a link directly copied from Google links to an Amp page on Google dotcom. And even web pages try to disable right clicking. I hate it. Most apps don’t need to be apps. An actual regular website is so great. And if you can, just a static page is the best as far as accessibility and usabili…

Also, the link will usually contain a bunch of tracking info which at best, makes it an annoyingly long mess, and at worst, makes it unclickable in whatever app the other person is using because it miss detects where the end of the link is.

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

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

Yeah, for all its faults, I'm going to be really sad when "old reddit" dies. The main pages are garbage, but I'm in some truly great niche communities that are going to be hard to replace. And even if I do, they'll be spread over a dozen websites instead of organized in a single place. I suppose cobbling together a replacement on discord is the future, which I've really tried to avoid.

Agreed. What Reddit provides is akin to what Medium tried to do for journalism/blogging and what PHPBB used to do for online forums: create a standardized, administratively curated platform for community engagement. The value it provides is the uniformity, not much more, and users will absolutely flee if they're treated too badly for too long.

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

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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…

Screenshot lives forever. Links die.

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

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> 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 characteris…

> You can change your sex with a sex reassignment surgery. You can surgically change genitals and pump hormones, the gametes don't change, nor chromosomes. > you are the sex your characteristics match. You're conflating gender and sex. Even for medical reasons alone, biological sex is an important consideration. We can show our appearance any way we like.

You aren't necessarily though which is the point. If you medication to regulate your hormones in the way a female's hormones would be regulated, your body largely acts as if it was female. The significant majority of sex related differences from a medical perspective are almost entirely hormone driven.

he exception to this rule are genetic disorders and sex-organ specific health considerations. The genetic disorders are karyotype specific but they aren't sex specific. Likewise sex-organ related issues still apply if you don't have the same chromosomal match-up.

A 46,XX male doesn't have a Y chromosome but they still have all the standard male biology. They have some additional health considerations (mainly infertility) but otherwise they are biologically male and are subject to near identical medical concerns as an average male.

Similarly a 46,XY female has a Y chromosome but they have otherwise physically normal female biology. The caveats being often needing hormone supplements and infertility.

Hell there are even a statistically significant number of people who don't have the same karyotype in all their cells. See 46,XY/45,X0 mosaicism and 46,XX/46,XY mosaicism.

My point being: In every case where the karyotype does not match the phenotypes, the driving characteristics that determines sex in the medical community is the phenotypes/physical expression.

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Now with that out of the way:

Is a man without their sexual organs still a man? Well how do you tell?

- By the chromosomes? Well obviously that doesn't work given the previously mentioned differences between karyotype and phenotype.

- By their sexual organs? Well in this case that doesn't work because they don't have any and/or had them removed.

- By the way they look? There are women who look like men and vice versa and this is quite subjective so it's not an entirely scientific way of making the separation.

- By their hormones? Well this is probably the best one since hormones regulate nearly all expression in the body and with hormone levels typical for a male, the body largely acts male and vice versa. But suppose we don't want to use this. What do we use?

Now do the same for a woman without their sexual organs.

In the end, if you remove the organs the only definitive differentiator between sexes is hormone levels. If you don't want to use hormone levels and you can't use sexual organs, there isn't any other differentiator that cleanly separates between male and female. Every other differentiator has N or 2^N caveats.

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So with respect to trans individuals undergoing sex reassignment surgery, if the differentiating sexual organs are removed/converted (a penis is biologically just an enlarged clitoris) and the hormones are completely replaced to levels equivalent of the sex they are transitioning to, what is left to differentiate them? Doubly so if they decide to transition before or during puberty.

Once again, biology is a lot fuzzier than people seem to realise. There is a lot of grey space and fluidity in sex just like with everything else in biology. The grey space is smaller in humans and mammals in general than in other species but it is well established in the scientific and medical community that sex is fuzzy and can change given the right circumstances.

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