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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

This is called gate keeping

And I like it.

[+] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 29 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He can host his own instance, then you're free to block it.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

You seem to be holding onto a lot of hate for something a very different guy did 10+ years ago. He's gotten married, had a kid and moved his family to Japan since his young edgy days.

He absolutely deserved criticism for the stupid shit he was doing when his channel was exploding, but I think holding onto that level of vitriol for this long isn't healthy.

People are allowed to grow and change. Im sure you said or did some incredibly stupid shit in your teenage and young adult years. I know I fucking did. If we never allow people to grow and change for the better then we are permanently locking each person to their lowest point and holding them there forever. I think that is an incredible robotic and inhuman way to approach the human condition.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah his fans are little assholes too.

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[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Please, no.

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

[+] Envy@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 9 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Context?

[–] simple@piefed.social 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months 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.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] Tillman@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Tha fuck is a pewds?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 months 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.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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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