Original question by @wildsir@lemmy.zip

Do you guys have any recommendations for more privacy respecting YouTube frontend for iOS? YouTube Lite Plus has been good so far but I’m not sure how effective that no tracking thing is. I’ve also seen on Reddit Yattee and BluePlayer. Anything else? I can sideload it if it’s not avaliable in the App Store. It would be nice if it also had features like SponsorBlock.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    What’s the point of reposting an advice question? First of all, there’s an actual crosspost feature, just use that instead of including a link to the user but not a link to the original post, and secondly, it seems wrong to be spamming crossposts into other communities. If the OP wanted it posted, they could have done it themselves, or you could recommend to them that they do so.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Yea, @cm0002@lemmy.world,

      I think you should only repost if you are also interested in the answer. Otherwise, its kinda weird especially when the topic is so niche.

      It’s like reposting a AITA post from reddit. Get what I’m saying?

      (But for everything else like links and memes, go ahead.)

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      54·
      6 days ago

      Because it has utility for a wider audience, I do skip hyper specific questions.

      As for the why:

      Why am I cross-posting .ml?

      I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

      Megathread on the issue

      Some highlights from the link:

      "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

      “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

      .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

      CW: Original transphobic Comment from Nutomic

      “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

      General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

      “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

      And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

      I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

      On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.