Hmm now that it's been made obvious that c/the_dunk_tank aren't oathbreakers and didn't in fact go rogue after all but still bend the knee to Hexbear, will there be talk of full scale defederation?
(I don't think they will, it's just so funny how this has been framed as "going rogue" and now that they're essentially pulling out of an alliance with a hexbear comm! It's Just 
a complete 180 of my previous impression of him.
Honestly I don't get it. Davel has been on of my favorite members of the broader lemmy-lemmygrad-hexbear commentariat when it comes to knowledgable anti-imperialist takes in the posting trenches. He has consistently been among the best at having pertinent (even lib-denialism-proof) sources on hand and ready to go for when the libs, much in need of being owned as always, start clamoring for them, and then correctly pointing out their own debate bro perversion. I have unjokingly thanked him for his service before.
It is so odd and discouraging to see him on the other side of that gulf.
Truly, no one is immune to the occasional need of touching grass.
I loved loved the Pumpkins in the 90s. Certain eras of my youth were defined by their albums. I actually learned guitar mostly to play Nirvana songs, but soon after that when learning what Corgan wrote, that's what got me to where I would consider myself a fairly decent guitarist and of course it heavily influenced my own style and the kind of stuff I liked to write. And actually Billy Corgan is still a fucking amazing guitarist, even if I think musically he had said all he was really gonna say by the time Machina came out and the song writing which had once been like you said, real masterpieces, fell off dramatically into the mediocre or worse range.
I didn't even think about Smashing Pumpkins for years, and was of course disappointed but not entirely shocked to learn how chud-adjacent he turned out to be, though I knew he had always been a dick at best. But just a few years back, I watched some videos of him just talking about gear and a few techniques to get certain sounds, fiddling around doing some demonstrations. The dude really is a virtuoso I think. Like in ways that I didn't realize back when I was a big fan in my teens and early 20s. I also used to listen to a lot of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, etc., and while Corgan may not be at quite that level, he's closer to it than any other 90s popular rock or alternative guitarists I can think of. There are plenty of Pumpkins songs where that isn't even evident, but of course certain other songs and their solos it does get revealed.
I'm surprised no one has pointed out what an appropriate name this clown has. Goddamn dronies.
Also,
(mostly because I no longer have a working PC, so I had to switch to playing on my roommate's PS5) and am about 40 hours in now.
Would you say the experience is significantly better on PC vs PS5? I've been really wanting to play Elden Ring after finally playing Bloodborne a few months ago, but I only have a PS4. I've been holding off with the hope that at some point in the distant future I'll have a PC capable of running games like this, or less likely, a PS5 if I luck into one on absurd sale.
Oh yeah, it would piss me the hell off too. If it really does end up breaking uBlock and there is no other work around, I will be one of the ones to simply just not ever watch youtube videos, regrettably.
Since it does seem limited to just some people right now and you are one of the unlucky ones, I'd suggest just using youtube frontends (like Invidious or Piped). They also seem to still be blocking ads just fine and have a bunch of other benefits. If youtube ends up implementing this new ad-forcing bullshit for everyone, I'd expect the frontends won't be immune from it either, but for now, I can't recommend these enough. When I was testing uBlock earlier of course I was using youtube directly, but generally speaking, I don't use youtube directly at all anymore and will only watch youtube videos with an Invidious or Piped instance. If you're not already aware, it's as simple as replacing the youtube-dot-com part of the url in your browser with the url of a frontend instance (that's what hexreplybot does for us!) That's going to be easier and less time consuming than using a downloader for every video you want to watch and certainly easier (and less costly) than a VPN. Youtube hates this of course (one of the reasons I love it) and so instances will sometimes get blocked or rate-limited, but it's always just temporary and all you have to do is use a different instance. Today piped.yt was working well for me, so whatever video you're trying to watch, just replace youtube.com with piped.yt, leaving the rest of the url the same. If you have issues with that, try inv.tux.pizza (which is an Invidious instance).
And since you mentioned using an extension, another thing I'd recommend if you want it automated so everytime you click on any youtube link you see the video via one of the frontends, get the extension LibRedirect. It's an unfortunate name for an otherwise pretty great extension. It works for a bunch of other websites too if you want it to.
They must be doing a limited or selective rollout again to test the new methods on only some accounts. Because I'm not getting any ads breaking through uBlock Origin. I've tested with phone and laptop on multiple videos and it's still working as it always has for me.
I commented in another part of the thread, but here is a thorough collection of links (that another hexbear put together) about what really happened including direct refutations of the US narrative: https://tiananmensquare.carrd.co/
Thank you! Just to add even more sources regarding the reality of the 6-4 incident, here is a carrd with a whole slew of good links with descriptions. Some are redundant with the links you posted, but there are a lot of others, including things like the full "Tank Man" video and a section with "Mentions in State-Owned Media In China [refuting the "censor" narrative]." I believe our comrade @robinnn@hexbear.net put it together (along with other ones on Xinjiang, DPRK, and the Holodomor).
Is this even a tiny bit about "reaching out," or is it simply that these democrats really are just fascists doing what fascists are wont to do?
However... still also very unsure about some things. I'm totally alone which feels like it makes it harder to figure certainthings out. So also 
And you can't view deleted posts from lemmy.ml by clicking on them in their modlog the way you can with hexbear. This is just the standard there.
In other words, people logged in to an account on lemmy.ml who see in the modlog that a post was deleted will only see "error_couldnt_find_post" if they click on it hoping to see what it was. For a lemmy.ml account, none of that post content or the comment thread it generated is visible, just gone.
To see what used to be there, you have to get to it from a hexbear account.