Sophocles

In my own experience, it’s less that they spew out politics and more that they are just so defensive and argumentative. A lot of good lemmy communities are based on discussion and sharing cool stuff, while the denizens of those instances and the like are more online to debate, nitpick, and criticize. Like there could be a post of a dog picture and their comment would be critisizing the owner or introducing some political argument that is distantly related. Like bro, just enjoy the dog picture

Anki is what I use; it’s solid, simple, and tracker-free. It’s also on FDroid

I’ve used most yt frontends (freetube, invidious, newpipe, etc.) and Grayjay is probably the one that breaks the least for me. Google is constantly trying to break all of them, so they are all on and off, but Grayjay seems to be on top of fixing breakages very quickly. It’s not perfect, but it is definitely worth the privacy pros.