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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.
The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians
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Reddit hosted videos have been such a joke lately. They are just ripped from YouTube and TikTok, almost always with out the creators permission.
I remember people on Reddit making fun of facebook saying everything on there was on Reddit 3 days ago. The tables have turned since then.
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.
The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians
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You're aware there is a difference between discrimination and categorization, right?
I don't understand the distinction or how it applies to the example above, can you please explain it to me.
Whether it applies to the example above though is I think more debatable.
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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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html CTRL+F "delete"
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Because my machine is a phone
Use a 3rd party client. On android, "Reddit is fun" and "RedReader" support downloading videos. Possibly others exist, but those are the only ones I've tried. I suspect iOS has some options as well.
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Doesn't the bot respond with a link to the saved video, which other users can then download without having to call the bot again? Whenever I've seen that bot or similar ones in a thread, the top one gets upvoted and duplicates get downvoted to the point of being hidden. This seems like the upvote/downvote system working as intended.
No, not really. Open _any_ video thread from the frontpage from yesterday and you will find multiple references to savevideo, getvideobot, downloadvideo, etc. All of them are different, competing bots participating in this spam race. Not to mention websites where there is no karma or equivalent (e.g. Twitter) and you just can't skip the spam to threadunroller or videodownloader or whatever.
One bot with +70 that's somewhat visible, a couple just barely above the "load more comments" filter with +3.
#2 result - https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_...
No bots without clicking to load more comments.
Really though it's the fault of Reddit (or Twitter, ...) for deliberately disabling users' ability to right-click and download videos like normal. This is entirely a self-inflicted problem.
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.
The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians
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.
The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians
This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...
I understand the incentive, but it reminds me of https://xkcd.com/979/ - I had it twice in the past that a good reply to a question was lost, because the commenter deleted its comment.