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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Pewds has been dabbling more in Linux and engineering content lately, and considering he's essentially retired and doesn’t rely on YouTube ad revenue anymore, wouldn’t it be amazing if he also started posting his videos on PeerTube in parallel?

He can definitely afford to support decentralized platforms and wouldn’t be held back by monetization concerns. With his reach, even just mirroring his content to PeerTube could bring massive attention to the Fediverse. Do you think he'd ever consider it?

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

Im not sure I want to draw from PewDiePie influenced adopters.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

This is called gate keeping

And I like it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The last thing we want is for the fediverse to be promoted by Nazi association.

Well, not the last last, but still bad enough.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Tired of you people trying to foster an echo chamber.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

You skipped like, three towns ahead and one to the right, mate. Actively defending against specific bad people in the world is not an "echo chamber".

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

he still has a following on youtube surprisingly on his vlogs, like 1+million views.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Please, no.

He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

The last thing we need is more nazi apologists, let alone loud nazi apologists with a loud fanbase

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

He is not a Nazi apologist at all lmao.

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like "death to Jews" or something like that. He didn't think they would actually do it and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

When he got backlash for the "joke" by mainstream media he felt they were purposely twisting things around in a certain way to make him look worse and he was going to prove it. He then wore a British WW2 military officers uniform for a video where he claimed they would purposely cut the video to misrepresent things and that's exactly what happened. They claimed he doubled down and wore a Nazi uniform because he was a Nazi.

Not long after that whole debacle he then had the infamous "bridge incident" where he called some random gamer the n word while he was live on twitch playing PUBG. He made an apology video after that where he said: “It was something I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to make any excuses as to why it did, because there are no excuses for it.”

Absolutely worth being criticized for the things he did in his past, but I don't think it's fair to cancel the guy forever because of those things. Especially when it appears that he has grown up quite significantly since those days.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like “death to Jews” or something like that. He didn’t think they would actually do it

Doesn't matter if he thought they would do it. Just coming up with the idea is enough to make it clear that he's a tasteless piece of garbage, and that NOBODY should be parading him around as someone to emulate.

People make mistakes. Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people learn from other's mistakes. Some mistakes are so egregious, reflecting such abysmally poor judgement, that they should never be lived down, even if for no other reason than to serve as a warning, so that others may learn.

That dip shit has made a lot of those mistakes. He shouldn't be in the public eye anymore. He should be a productive member of society working as an assistant to the junior manager at an obscure toilet paper company.

and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.

You left out the part where he then published it for all of his followers.

In between having the idea that no respectable human being should ever have, to the point that he clicked "Publish" to send the video out to everyone, he had soooooo many opportunities for self reflection and a realization that that was a really fucking bad idea. Yet, he did it anyway.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

He was making a joke of Keemstar's extreme racism with the Fiverr thing. But it was memed by others and context was lost.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Unless he joins fedia.io you don't really get a say in what he does... kind of the entire point behind decentralization....

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I haven't ever followed it. Do we know if him adopting Linux have an effect on his audience?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

A few weeks ago, so Pewds probably wasn't it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Tha fuck is a pewds?

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