Has piped ever actually worked for you? I try to watch something on piped every couple weeks on desktop, and regularly on mobile because of the bot, and the videos … just don’t play. It’s just never worked.

Don’t you mean “this!”?

Ah, you got me

Why don’t you just block the communities yourself?

You have the ability to do that, but instead you’re demanding that the instance admins take the choice away from you?

This is some nanny state shit. It’s like saying “I don’t want to see morally qiestionable things like drag shows, the government should ban them!” Like just block it and don’t fucking go there if you don’t want to see it. Don’t advocate for taking the choice away from everyone.

If that keeps the normies out then it’s a win.

Now we need one that does that and is available on FDroid.

Hosting is the legal issue. Linking to illegal content that somebody else is hosting is much harder to tackle legally, which is why isohunt was around for so long despite being based in the US. IIRC they shut down not because they lost any lawsuits but because they just couldn’t afford the legal battle.

Now I absolutely need to see this shoplifting community. Please post a link.

I’ve never bothered with private trackers, what benefits do they actually provide?