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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

superkuh wrote: post #250
oehpr wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really chafes me that that somehow "looking at a video on a computer" managed to find itself legally distinct from "downloading it".

It's one of the more impressive mass delusions lawyers have managed to impose on modern society. Somehow if you call downloading something "streaming" and promise to delete it it is no longer downloading.

The lawyers are happy to play along but it seems more like "media mega-corps have bought politicians to impose on modern society".

My own personal views, of course.

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

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Post by breakingcups »

Syntaf wrote: post #330
hbn wrote: post #181

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There are decent (free and paid) third-party clients that make Reddit a much nicer experience on mobile. On Android I was a big fan of Sync for Reddit, and on iOS I've been using Apollo. Every once in a while I'll open up the official client and I'm just blown away at how bad it is. It's constantly trying to get me to watch livestreams of people doing random things unrelated to my interests. Why would I ever want to…

RIF (Reddit is Fun) is a great android app for the classic reddit experience, worth mentioning for anyone looking for a better android app.

Yeah, the moment they lock out RIF, I'm done with Reddit.

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

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Post by deepspace »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #337
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.

Their video player has got to be the worst for a company of their size/resources. I almost always go to the comments to find a mirror instead of trying to load a 30s clip. I've got brand new hardware and a gig connection...It shouldn't take >30s to load a <30s clip!

The updated video player is unintuitive and difficult to use on mobile, and essentially unusable on a tablet in portrait mode.

It is so strange to see a company making their mobile experience WORSE these days.

Looking at the complaints on the site about the video player UI and the lack of response from Reddit to said complaints, it is speculated that some consultant convinced some Reddit executive that they needed to emulate the TikTok UI to grow their user base. This ignores the fact that TikTok is video-centric, while Reddit is comment-centric, and breaking comment functionality to emulate someone else's video functionality makes no sense at all.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

JohnWhigham wrote: post #229
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #78

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

But then you lose the network effect. reddit is so valuable because it brings together so many people from so many walks of life that would have never interacted otherwise.

Yes, I feel they've done that bit, AskHistorians is a brand in it's own right now. Seems like contributors could form a coop, have a subscription model, use it to fund research, etc..

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

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Post by rualca »

rchaud wrote: post #202
rualca wrote: post #177

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> Spam. This excuse doesn't really stick as reddit moderates content both by their user base but also by subreddit mods and reddit admins. I'd say that this is all to do with the goal of turning reddit into a walled garden.

It absolutely sticks. Moderators work for free, so you get what you pay for. The automod feature on r/web_design for instance blocks any post that has "Wordpress" in it. The reason given is that WP theme providers spam the subreddit. But it also kills legitimate discussion of Wordpress. The mods don't care. Their convenience comes first.

> Moderators work for free, so you get what you pay for.

Moderating a subreddit is not a job. Moderators are regular users from the community who are picked to have a say in how the community is regulated.

> The automod feature on r/web_design for instance blocks any post that has "Wordpress" in it. The reason given is that WP theme providers spam the subreddit. But it also kills legitimate discussion of Wordpress.

Good to see that you're agreeing with me, unless you believe that mods fixing a problem without resorting to a walled garden is somehow a counterexample.

> The mods don't care. Their convenience comes first.

You're needlessly overgeneralizing. Using an automated filter that's prone to false positives is not a problem at all, or refutes the point I made. In fact, it supports the fact that forcing a walled garden is needed or desirable.

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

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Post by toomanybeersies »

konschubert wrote: post #143
neutronicus wrote: post #134

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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…

> because recipes on non-reddit websites always seem to be gated behind multiple auto playing videos and the author's entire life story Thank SEO for that.

I blame online advertising, and in particular CPM payouts, which incentivise extraneous content to drive up impressions.

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

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Post by lanfeust6 »

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #319
lanfeust6 wrote: post #238

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> 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…

This is abysmally wrong.

Physicians don't suddenly stop needing know one's biological sex by virtue of reassignment surgery - if anything it's even more important. The mere virtue of having to constantly inject hormones to alter expression to a limited degree evidences what sex is in play. Some medication may react differently owing to sex, not just ratio of testosterone and estrogen.

You're reducing sex to something it isn't. I'm not sure to what end, because it helps no one.

> Is a man without their sexual organs still a man?

Yep.

> Well how do you tell?

A rudimentary exam could do it.

> the driving characteristics that determines sex in the medical community is the phenotypes/physical expression.

In terms of cursory glances only. In terms of actual examination, no. Absolutely not.

> The significant majority of sex related differences from a medical perspective are almost entirely hormone driven.

Entirely wrong.

> 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.

These aberrations exist but are incredibly uncommon. I think I'd read of a single woman thus far with XY chromosomes.

> what is left to differentiate them

What do you think is driving the need for constant hormone replacement?

Stop conflating sex and gender. Seriously, the fact that biological sex is a thing does not jeopardize gender expression and flexibility.

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

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Post by toomanybeersies »

loonster wrote: post #165
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #109

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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…

I just hate how it is not consistent with the clicking. (Same problem everywhere). Click a thumbnail of image to expand full size. Click a thumbnail of image ling to go to site. I only wanted to expand the thumbnail and not go to the site. If after I expand the thumbnail and find it interesting, then I will want a link. On HN, if post is not a link, clicking on title brings to comments. If post is a link, clicking on…

> On HN, if post is not a link, clicking on title brings to comments

The title is a link in both cases. In the first case, it's a link to a HN discussion. In the second case, it's a link to an external website.

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

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Post by toomanybeersies »

Vuska wrote: post #218
rchaud wrote: post #196

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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.

I mod a programming subreddit. 99% of our submissions are screenshots. It drives me mad. I tried to enforce pastebin / text posts only a few years ago and the community was firmly against it, so I let it go. We even have volunteer transcribers (thank you /r/TranscribersOfReddit) who transcribe the majority of posts. The modern internet truly is a weird place.

I wonder what the aggregate cost of text-only screenshots is. Not so much the lack of accessibility and discoverability (which are probably the biggest costs), but the energy wasted from the extra CPU cycles, the extra storage space, the increased load on networks.

Come to think of it, it's probably minuscule compared to cryptocurrencies...

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

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Post by mdoms »

ineptech wrote: post #291
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…

Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fill your chat app with friends who consistently linked you to neat stuff. Now, no more. "Check out this link" is not an enticing offer, it's assigning homework. I don't know if it's because neat stuff is no lo…

Part of it is that most links, even when the content is good, come with some amount of pain in accessing it. Cookie banners, in-line ads re-flowing the content, pop-over ads, "subscribe to my mailing list" popups, donation begging popups, long-winded articles needlessly stuffed full of SEO keywords, auto playing videos, and most websites so full of all this stuff they jank out my phone and make it heat up.

I remember the web as fondly as you do. I spent hours on StumbleUpon just finding cool websites. But nowadays even if the content is just as good (it rarely is), the websites are just so bad.

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