He switched to linux a while back. Now he’s trying to switch as much of the rest of his digital life to FOSS/non-profit stuff. He advocates for duckduckgo, firefox, paid email, graphene os, selfhosted vaultwarden, nextcloud, anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
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cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
i don’t want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what’s his beef here
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Just downloaded it and skimmed by frames… Seems to be a list of reasons to degoogle. Mentions privacy, security, and how Google is extending fingers into everyone’s privacy by browser, password manager, wallet, phone, etc.
november@lemmy.vg 8 hours ago
Guy’s an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
candyman337@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Really didn’t like him when he was younger, he was a naive swedish kid that didn’t realize that the dumb shit he said online had ramifications because his audience was so big. He helped platform Ben Shapiro to a younger generation when he had him on his channel for a video, he had that scandal where he said the n word, and then of course the clip where he says the glass ceiling doesn’t exist.
I hope these days he’s realizing how idiotic some of that shit was and is actually trying to use his platform to make his viewers aware of valid issues rather than spouting off about topics he knows nothing about to his viewers who take his word as truth.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He also paid some Africans to hold an anti-semitic sign. To prove people will do things for money I think?
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 hours ago
Heartbreaking: one of the most deplorable people in the world made a good point.
TheFogan@programming.dev 5 hours ago
I mean I don’t really consider him a deplorable person… He was a dumb edgy teen 15 years ago that happened to strike a cord with the overwhelming amount of dumb edgy teens on youtube, and strike it rich. I haven’t paid a ton of attention to him, but from what I saw of his linux and gadget crafting videos, it sounds like he’s grown up a fair amount from his days of scream streaming.
altphoto@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
The president is pewmypie? I had no idea!
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve never watched him, but isn’t he just a Twitch streamer?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The enemy of my enemy or some shit.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I’ve never watched him (I hated him when he would just scream at video games) but he seems to be a lot more mature these days. He even posted a video on why you should switch to Linux recently
somewa@suppo.fi 7 hours ago
I was surprised that the video was actually quite good.
kemsat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.
dieTasse@feddit.org 1 hour ago
bro, open your mind for a minute. Privacy is for everyone. And we need masses wanting privacy otherwise nothing changes.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 35 minutes ago
Just throwing this out there, you can open the video and expand the description and there is a button you can click on to view the transcript of the video and then you can just copy that out into a text editor or read it right there