Climbing Slings, Climbing Knots, and Climbing Anchors: Are Knots in Slings a Good Practice?

Knots weaken soft climbing materials like slings, but we tie knots in slings all the time. Particularly the high forces that anchors can face during multi-pitch climbing will make us want to be sure our anchors are reliable. So, why do so many people tie knots in anchor slings? And isn't this worse with dyneema? Let's go deep into this topic.
The dyneema slings I use in the video are the Mammut Dyneema Contact Sling 8mm (wide) which can be found in various lengths, here:
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Here's the video from HowNot2 on Magic X anchors including load limiting knots: • Mammut Dyneema Climbin...
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0:00 Intro
0:07 Bumper
0:15 Knots in Slings!!??
0:56 3 Illustrative Anchors
1:28 2 vs 3 anchor points
1:55 Magic X Pros and Cons
3:55 Load Limiting Knots Pros and Cons
4:35 Knots in Dyneema
5:59 Ponytail Master Point Pros and Cons
6:44 6 Key Takeaways
7:54 Conclusion
8:04 Outro
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[@ShortGuysBetaWorks]

What type of climbing do you "typically" do (sport, trad, multi-pitch of either, alpine, ice)? What material are you "typically" using to build your anchors? ⚓⚓⚓

[@inductivethinking]

For sport and multipitch mostly nylon, for mountaineering dyneema and edelrid "tech web" slings.

[@Jake-mc5xf]

​@@inductivethinkingbeen loving those Edelrid aramid slings.

[@yusufhrp2395]

Nice

[@gulaiymnurbolotova986]

Super video

[@ShortGuysBetaWorks]

Thanks, again!