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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!
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.
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.
Om, nomnomnom...
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."
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.
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?
The content you are referring to is truly dangerous.
And that is for me to decide. Not a bunch of SJWs (who thinks the "ok" hand symbol is somehow white power) to protect the perpetually offended.
The fact that you think you know what I have been watching and say with a straight face that it is "truly dangerous" shows just how full of horseshit that you and your ilk are.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
How soon before we see a "purge" like what his happening now at Youtube with all conservative content?
> conservative content You are so full of shit. God dammit, I swear internet comments get dumber every day.
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.
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.
But the issues at Youtube are that advertisers are pressuring them to only show their ad on content that doesn't go against the companies guidelines. Film companies don't want their films advertised before a video preaching racial hatred. Seeing as YouTube, Google and the people making the videos rely on ad revenue to fund themselves, the site being perceived a non-advertiser friendly could and has cost them significantly. Even channels that provide news coverage of the recent marches and terrorist attacks have been flagged by advertisers, not even content in support of those things, just journalism.
So they're stuck between building better systems to indentify content the advertisers don't want to be associated with and either removing or filtering it, or loosing the larger advertisers entirely and potentially leading YouTube into financial decline.
How is that in any way Google being evil?
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.
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.