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 got sick of seeing two kinds of videos:
1. Teenagers dancing to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs.
2. Teenagers performing physical feats to a specific song, always one of a handful of songs.
- watching the video completely
- liking
- commenting
- sharing
increase your account's affinity to the tags associated with that video. If you like multiple videos with the same tag, you'll start seeing many videos with that tag. So, I think searching for a few tags about topics you're interested in and liking a few videos will prime the algorithm enough to make suggestions start being relevant.
This can also be annoying - I must have liked a few vids about dnd, and now i get more dnd suggestions than I want.
I almost always go to the comments to find a mirror instead of trying to load a 30s clip. I've got brand new hardware and a gig connection...It shouldn't take >30s to load a <30s clip!
It is so strange to see a company making their mobile experience WORSE these days.
Looking at the complaints on the site about the video player UI and the lack of response from Reddit to said complaints, it is speculated that some consultant convinced some Reddit executive that they needed to emulate the TikTok UI to grow their user base. This ignores the fact that TikTok is video-centric, while Reddit is comment-centric, and breaking comment functionality to emulate someone else's video functionality makes no sense at all.
I thought this was just me and my settings! I have a bunch of accessibility things set and thought somehow that was fucking with it. It’s like a dance of flipping just to push that x. Crappy design.