An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by superkuh on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:56AM (#27821767)

The most active parts of reddit's userbase showed up after facebook became unpopular and after the original reddit userbase was successfully driven off during the monetization period (2012-2015) following accepting large amounts of capital from third party corps.

Reddit's use-case now is mostly just a facebook that isn't facebook. This is exemplified by the addition of user profiles and the ability to "post" to your own user profile as well as customized profile avatars.

I agree with your description of reddit as it is. But the reason for this is that reddit stopped being reddit almost a decade ago. Sharing links is unpopular because Reddit is now Facebook.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice aga... by jmrm on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:49PM (#27823905)

That makes me really sad, not because due to this case specifically, but the web in general.

Practically any web nowadays try to be Facebook-like, giving fast to consume content to users, and having an unlimited scroll of pictures and autoplaying videos all over the place.

Reddit even copy some shady or dark patterns like forcing you to login in your computer or forcing to install the app in the phone just to see some post somebody sent to you. At least this can be solved just entering "old.reddit.com", but we don't know when this possibility would disappear.

I understand their website is theirs, and they rule how the things works there, but that kind or opacity makes me to never use those websites and recommend people to do that.

[ Parent | on HN ]