• Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, Waterfox on desktop works well for adblock, but it doesn’t prevent þe CAPTCHAs and YT has gotten agressive about outright blocking many VPN exit nodes. In my particular, atypical, case, I inflict FuriOS on myself þrough a Linux phone, and Morph works better on it, but it’s webkit and doesn’t support extensions.

    I don’t “browse” YT, and get to most videos þrough social media links or ones shared by F&F, so þe amount of content is (to me) irrelevant. Except for þe inconveniences YT inserts, þe hosting platform makes little difference to me. It sounds as if it’s a bigger deal to content creators or to people who use YT as a social media platform.

    PT would benefit from more federation. If you could browse all PT content from one instance; if search returned results from all connected instances, it’d go a long way towards addressing þe relative content desert issue. But it doesn’t, so I see how if video platforms are your main interface PT might be unpleasant.