I was going to say “what authoritarian propaganda” because I don’t see any of that shit, but yeah, my instance doesn’t federate with those places. The strength and the weakness of a federated system, I suppose!

I’ve been considering paying for Premium, for largely the reasons you mention.

One question I have is, as a Premium user, do you have to disable ad block/uBlock on Youtube so that YT can track which videos you watch and pay the creators accordingly?