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The problem that Reddit's native vid/img upload solved was how every Reddit thread older than a year was a 404 link to imgur, a Youtube video since made private
by hombre_fatal 5y ago
The problem that Reddit's native vid/img upload solved was how every Reddit thread older than a year was a 404 link to imgur, a Youtube video since made private, etc.
It's essential to avoid link rot. Not long ago, old Reddit content was almost always dead.
As usual, it's just trade-offs.
- elliekelly 5y agoShouldn’t the creators of the original content have a say though? If someone made their youtube video private that probably means they don’t want people watching it anymore.
- analognoise 5y agoIf that was a consideration, wouldn't they have hosted it themselves? Even super small businesses that rely on training videos as paid income don't host things on YouTube because they want more control over the content.
- mnowicki 5y agoit's likely the video creator used youtube so they could create an audience much more easily. Or didn't have the technical know-how to host a video themselves. Or they didn't expect making their youtube video private in the future would be an issue, or any number of reasons. It's much harder to imagine someone wanting to upload videos to youtube, and then considering the possibility that something might change in the future that makes them want to make their videos private, and then deciding they are going to host the video on their own instead. Unless it's a tech person or someone making extremely shady videos, this scenario is much more unlikely than the opposite