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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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 3 hours 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.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee -3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

people still defend him like its nothing he fled to japan because controversy dint reach the country, he stayed off the radar him getting married is irrelevant when compared to what he did, and he dint officially apologize. basically pulled a sniperwolf, disappeared for a while and came back. im agreeing with you.

the issue is should people jump different platforms, because an influencer like him said so. and the other commentor said you should forgive him because it has ben 7 years, people dont forget hate attacks, especially if he has not felt consequences or amended his past. he just ran.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

Please, no.

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

This is called gate keeping

And I like it.

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 14 points 22 hours 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 15 hours ago

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

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

They can tell them to spread out registrations.

[–] Envy@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (15 children)
[–] simple@piefed.social 23 points 1 day 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 16 points 1 day 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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day 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 1 day 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.

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

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

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[–] Tillman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Tha fuck is a pewds?

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