I honestly agree 100%. I support all my LGBTIQ+ people, but in an ideal world I really shouldn’t need to. My support is purely there because there are people who actively want to hurt them, and for no other reason. Part of me worries that some of this support can come across as special treatment

Similarly, I wish people would stop bringing stuff like their sexuality/gender up without prompt, it just comes off as… self-centred, I guess? Bonus points if it’s in their twitter handle

That being said, probably my best online friend was a trans girl (mtf). None of our conversations revolved around them being trans, we just played games and laughed together. Good times

I use freetube, an open source youtube frontend

It’s not an alternative per se, but it does make youtubes shit easier to stand

Front page is just all the videos from your subs in order of most recently uploaded. Super useful, especially if you find yourself missing out on videos from some of your less frequent uploaders