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Video Is Coming To Reddit (variety.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report from Variety: Videos are coming to Reddit, thanks to a new feature that allows users to upload video clips directly to the service. Reddit rolled out the new video feature Tuesday after testing it with around 200 communities over the past couple of weeks. Reddit users are now able to upload videos of up to 15 minutes in length, with file sizes being limited to 1 gigabyte. Users will be able to upload videos via Reddit's website and its mobile apps for iOS and Android, with the latter offering basic trimming functionality as well. And, in keeping with the spirit of the site, Reddit is also offering a conversion tool to turn videos into animated Gifs. Videos are being displayed persistently, or pinned, meaning that users can scroll through the comments while the video keeps playing in the corner of their screen. And community moderators can opt not to allow videos in their Subreddits at all, with Le arguing that some discussion-heavy Subreddits may decide that the format just doesn't work for them.
Wow, and they got there before unicode at Slashdot.
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The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Ever since Damore, I've been concerned about videos like CppCon and BoostCon along with "XXXX" meetups being posted on Youtube. It's nice to have an alternative.
Let the rick-rolling begin!
How soon before we see a "purge" like what his happening now at Youtube with all conservative content? Censorship is running rampant on Youtube with videos AND comments being deleted outright. And by the way, if you equate conservative content with the Alt-right or Nazis; then go to hell. And the same applies if you deny it happening or justify it.
I'm an adult, and I can decide for myself what to watch or what not to watch. Something that evil-doing Google seems to have lost grasp of. That seems to be all the rage these days, protecting special people from being offended with some censorship here, some more censorship over there and maybe toss in a job firing. Not to mention their attempt at 're-educating' me by throwing videos I don't want to watch in my face.
I truly hope that reddit avoids this mess.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Fuck 'sticky' elements that follow you as you scroll
Fuck embedded videos pretty much anywhere
And, most of all, fuck reddit
Unless Reddit is the gubmint, "free speech" is out of context.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You thought your energy, storage, and bandwidth bills were high before... and you're still not really making any money, and thought this was a good idea?
Try firing your corrupt administration, first. You might have enough money to BEGIN to afford the drain you just put on yourself.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I'm sure it's going to work out as well as the optimists think! What could possibly go wrong?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Reddit will sink under the ever-expanding load of white supremacy porn.
That's an irrelevant distinction. There's still no reason why they can't strive to maximize free expression, regardless of whether they're a public or private institution.
They need to choose whether they want to be a discussion platform or an indoctrination platform. A discussion platform will support free expression for all. An indoctrination platform, on the other hand, will allow free expression for some, but with these select few also being allowed to control what everyone else can express.
This takes the discussion back to what the original comment in this thread was saying. Reddit's problem is that it's currently far more like an indoctrination platform than it is like a discussion platform. They should fix that problem long before they start adding in stuff like videos.
upholding free speech is the responsibility of a free society, not its government. Typically, it's cultures unwilling to deal with uncomfortable truths that seek to silence others, hence the similarities between the left and these neo nazi groups..
Unless Reddit is the gubmint, "free speech" is out of context.
You have posted this comment in /r/pcmasterrace, you have been automatically banned from /r/politics /r/worldnews /r/twoxchromosomes /r/offmychest /r/rape, 11/25 default subs, etc.
Please enjoy your stay on reddit, where echo chambers reign supreme.
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Free speech should be a social objective, not just a matter of law. No, it needn't be absolute, but it should be the default.
I have no opinion on reddit. I just have an opinion on freedom of expression.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Now we'll finally have a place where gamers can post videos about peacefully putting Jews in ovens.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Lefties and proggies don't believe in free speech or liberalism.
Okay, put down the broad brush, and rethink your view of the world.
People, no matter what part of the political spectrum they identify with, are not so easy to pigeon-hole as you want to imagine.
And BTW, there are plenty of lefties and righties who believe in free speech and liberalism (in the sense of liberty.)
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
No, there is a huge different between how leftists approach free expression and how people of other political persuasions do.
Centrists and moderates tend not to care what people express. Since they don't care, or are ambivalent, they have no reason to try to influence what is or isn't expressed.
Those on the political right tend to take free expression very seriously. In the US, these are people who are the strongest defenders of the First Amendment. Freedom is a cornerstone of the political right's system of beliefs. They want everybody to be able to express themselves freely, regardless of what is actually expressed. They are very much against censorship and the moderation of online content.
It's the political left who, as part of their foundational beliefs, wants to exert control over how and what people express. They're the ones forcing the idea of "political correctness". They're the ones who deem certain ideas to be "unacceptable" and thus inexpressible. They're the ones who want to enforce censorship. They're the ones who push for online comments to be deleted, for commenters to be banned, for domains to be deregistered, and for service providers to censor their customers.
The events of the past week should make it clear that it's leftists who go well out of their way to suppress the free expression of everybody else.
Every single browser can play the modern formats in a thin frame, why would you ever need to use gif? It's a brilliant way to take high-quality video and turn it into something bulky, sluggish, in low fidelity. Are you stupid or something?
A great experiment by Reddit team, rolled out video features to be streaming on reddit web. An interesting to see on it.
This sounds like an introduction to intrusive adds. If you try to use an add blocker you block the content. People universally hate the player, there is definitely a financial reason they are stubbornly pushing it. Reminds me of when digg tried to aggressively monotize its user base and ended up alienating them.
Because let's face it, enough of their traffic is exactly that to keep driving narratives so things constantly hit the front page that probably wouldn't organically get there in the first place.
Reddit's image hosting is already the worst thing to happen to the internet with their retarded resizing to some awkward resolution and awful quality. I'm sure it won't be any different for video.
Indeed.
I do find it both troubling and amusing that while you were modded down for saying that the GP was modded up.
Let's try to lay this out so even the biggest "words can hurt me" snowflakes can understand it:
Ok, so "congress shall make no law ... prohibiting the free exercise ... or abridging the freedom of speech". We get that. But where does that freedom of speech come from in the first place?
I'll tell you, it's a natural, inalienable right of every person! Natural in that it applies to everyone, inalienable in that it can't be given away, and it can't be taken away. Not businesses, not individuals, not churches, cults, charitable organisations, no-one! Just because the founding fathers felt the need to explicitly state that the state couldn't restrict that right doesn't mean that anyone else can. They can't, and attempting to restrict someone's right to free speech is wrong*!
Honestly, some of the sheer idiocy I see here just boggles my mind!
*This is not to say you are free from any consequences resulting from what you've said - I realise that this is a common argument / misconception regarding free speech.
Watchdit?
Well that's a great news, now no more using youtube videos on reddit...
Let's try to lay this out so even the biggest "words can hurt me" snowflakes can understand it:
I don't like replying to myself, but, on reflection, I regret this choice of words.
While I tend to think that, for the most part, offence is taken not given, I am sorry if anyone was offended by this part of what I said.
I stand by the rest of the post though.
so ...videos for dummies?
after all 200 posters in a north korean thread don't even know that the usa and other nations are still technically at a state of war with north korea , and when you tell people and finally get upset about it they ban you...any videos there are just for the mentally handicapped that are always at that site
Sadly - it is part of the system. Upvote/Downvote doesn't reflect disagree. Take, as an example, a post that I made, which has a negative score. I never engage in political debate (other than to crack jokes) in Reddit and this is why:
https://www.reddit.com/r/world...
Someone said: "I didn't vote for Trump, so I don't deserve him as a president" (100+ karma). The response was "Most of us didn't vote for him, just not the right combination of "us" I guess. Thanks Electoral College." (120+ karma).
I said (in summary): "Trump's party carried the majority in House and Senate. Trump carried a majority of states in popular majority and a majority of in popular majority. He got more electoral college votes than the other candidate. We live in a system where it is not a popular vote, and the person that you want elected isn't necessarily the person the country wants elected."
(-11 karma)
At -11 karma, this post is effectively removed from discussion. I take those downvotes to mean "I don't like Trump so I don't like your comment".
That said, there are plenty of (non-political) communities where good advice is plentiful. I HIGHLY recommend bodyweightfitness and BuyItForLife. The discussions of "how to do a handstand" and "how can I buy higher quality socks without wasting my money" are relatively safe from downvotes (people who disagree with your handstand/socks advice will rebut rather than try to downvote). I have ~2K karma overall on reddit for fitness advice, jokes, purchase advice.
Before the violent hateful violent alt-left drives everyone away from it.
Those on the political right tend to take free expression very seriously
Until a gay couple dares to hold hands, or a black group dares to carry guns to a capitol building, or a store clerk says "Happy Holidays". Don't delude yourself.
Nice to see that some people can use their brain still. Tired of all the pigeon-holing on the news, "whites this" "blacks that", "left", "right", so many stereotypes. It's prejudice and it's rampant.
So, now we've migrated from Flash (boo!) to HTML5 multimedia...
- Every site wants to include video, no matter how inappropriate
- Every site wants the video to autoplay
- Every site wants it to be as intrusive and distracting as possible, impossible to scroll past and ignore
I've been worrying for a while we made a mistake in demonizing Flash. You see, Flash you could just disable. Because it was a security risk, there were a hundred browser extensions and features making it easy to block Flash on a case-by-case basis.
But video? Mozilla won't even provide a UI to allow you to disable autoplay, and if you do disable it via about:config, it's an all-sites-or-nothing thing. I've actually switched to using Firefox to browse the web, and Chrome to view videos if I find one I want to watch.
This is horrible. Do I want Flash back? The worst part of that question is: I don't know. I really don't know. Between the abuse of video, and the introduction of non-standards for DRM by the W3C effectively closing the web, I think Flash was better.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Of course the champions of truthiness don't want to suppress speech, they're too busy suppressing people.
The Birther-in-Chief stirred the American soup, and turds came to the surface. Those little shits are whining because their KKK ways aren't working anymore. And they can't blame their woes on some crypto-muslim anymore. Thanks Obama!
free speech n.
the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint.
NOT LIMITED TO GOVERNMENT. See store for details.
More things for reddit to sensor and shadow ban!
That is going the wrong direction. Why would anyone want to take a nice video, increase the file size tenfold, and reduce it to 256 colours? That makes no sense.
I've always hated the recent resurgence of this antiquated, terrible image format, but this is a new low. Fuck you Reddit for continuing to spread this garbage.
...more video on the internet. Because there's nothing I like better than sitting through a three-minute video to get 10 seconds of information that I could have read.
I question your use of the word, "should."
If you're a legislator pondering the wording of a Constitutional amendment, then fine.
Freedom of speech is a protection against being arrested by the government.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I have never been to Reddit; don't know any of the TOS; don't know the etiquette; have no motivation to go there.
I do, however, know what freedom of speech is.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.