look, it has dark mode

Starts @2:20, if the linked timestamp doesn’t work.

It wasn’t removed, there was never an app before.

They’ve had one for a while.

It doesn’t.

[citation needed]

The phrase used was not “shifted considerably”, it’s “mass exodus”.

Didn’t happen to Twitter. Didn’t happen to Reddit. Won’t happen to Meta.

They’re effectively dead. I haven’t ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.

That’s a YouTube/VPN thing. Every other app is experiencing the same issue, in my experience.

That’s not GrayJay. That’s YT. They’ve started blocking access to users who use a VPN without logging in.

God forbid they don’t know everything about you.

Edit: response from FUTO

Seems to be related to UMP streams and we have issue opened for it and it’s top priority for us to fix this now. It is however very complex so it takes time to fix it but at least we figured out why it is happening and once it is fixed it should be a smooth experience on Youtube at least for a while until they change something else on their backend…

It doesn’t matter what software you use. There’s no point to hashtags on Lemmy. It’s just a fundamentally different platform in that way. And I find it incredibly annoying that Masto, Twitter, and other microblogging platforms will tag everyone who was ever involved in a thread. Character limits are stupid and remove all nuance from any conversation. Not to mention all those automated tags eat into your character limits and just add a bunch of clutter for no reason. If you reply to someone on Lemmy, they get a notification, so the only time you need to tag someone is if you want them to see your comment and you didn’t reply specifically to them.

I really hope you don’t. Lemmy is a particular type of community and it’s already being filled with unnecessary and annoying tags and hashtags. They really don’t mesh well together.

It’s not true. Not even close.

Do you support automated posting from RSS feeds?

You first.

Yes you do

I’d argue that maybe it isn’t based on political or religious views

The main argument I see against Lemmy devs is that they’re “tankies”, which is most certainly political. And I agree. Except that there’s nothing in the software itself that is political. Only the devs, and many of the .ml communities and users.

that is the privilege of a list curator.

It can be their privilege and also be censorship. You seem to imply otherwise.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or “inconvenient”. Censorship can be conducted by governments and private institutions. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is referred to as self-censorship. General censorship occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent slander and libel.

• Wikipedia

They are suppressing information about the fediverse based on political views. They had it up and then they took it down. Please explain how this is not censorship. I don’t know where people get the idea that censorship is an inherently negative thing.