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Im not sure I want to draw from PewDiePie influenced adopters.
This is called gate keeping
And I like it.
PewDiePie posting on PeerTube will result with many of his videos being viewed on PeerTube. But either:
- he would make an instance only for himself and majority of his viewers would fail to make a Fediverse account to follow him, or
- he would open that instance for his viewers to make a account there, but then he would be liable for every comment made by his viewers, or
- he would make an account on already existing instance, making a great burden of moderating his viewers for existing administration and moderation team.
An entire network cannot be effectively marketed and accomodate a new users' wave as well as any centralised website, like YouTube, or Bluesky.
he still has a following on youtube surprisingly on his vlogs, like 1+million views.
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Fuck this guy. When I was growing up a group of skin heads infiltrated our local punk scene, even though they liked the same bands as the rest of us, we fucking ran them out of every show. Felix deserves zero praise for his recent moves.
Stop giving him your attention.
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Please, no.
He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.
The last thing we need is more nazi apologists, let alone loud nazi apologists with a loud fanbase
Context?
He said the N word once when he got mad in a video game, and another time made an edgy joke. In both cases he apologized shortly after, and while I don't even like Pewdiepie it's a stretch to call him a nazi/nazi apologist...
He certainly was influenced by a certain political scene about seven years ago, parroting Ben Shapiro at a few occasions and featuring a lot of anti-sjw humour in his videos.
But that was seven years ago and he clearly majorly changed his views on his platform after the Christchurch shootings.
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Unless he joins fedia.io you don't really get a say in what he does... kind of the entire point behind decentralization....
I haven't ever followed it. Do we know if him adopting Linux have an effect on his audience?
Idk about his audience, or if it’s because of my preaching, lots of my tech savvy students are making the switch to Linux or are at least gnucurious.
How long has “PewDiePie”’s linux thing been going.
I had a friend switch to linux about two years ago for no reason. And that friend is obsessed with pewdiepie. I hadn’t made the connection.
A few weeks ago, so Pewds probably wasn't it.
gnucurious
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Tha fuck is a pewds?
He isnt a very social guy so he probably doesnt care to promote social media especially one with so much extremist content. His linux video is more than enough to funnel some more people into fedi adjacent communities and if they want to I'm sure they'll find their way here.
Even if he did, look at the reactions in these threads. People dont want to grow this place.
The last thing we want is for the fediverse to be promoted by Nazi association.
Well, not the last last, but still bad enough.
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