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 1 month ago
i don’t want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what’s his beef here
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
girthero@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?
Drekaridill@feddit.is 5 weeks ago
I don’t think they’re including Kodi with Google maps, I think they’re just continuing with the list.
bastion@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
yeah. poorly worded.
Zeoic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“anything but google maps” is its own list item, not starting a new list. That list just doesn’t have a googlemaps alternative in mind so they used that.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You need to work on that reading comprehension.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Nah - the english language is just full of ambiguities that people tend to understand through context or intonations from speaking that are lost in text
bastion@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
yeah, that was ambiguously worded.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
But not Youtube. Which is Google.
Curious.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I mean…not that curious. It’s his entire livelihood at the moment.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
So it’s “You get off Google but not me! And keep subsidizing me!”?
It’s about 15% more understandable, but still, the same crap I expect by default from that kind of person.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Guy’s an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
candyman337@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Heartbreaking: one of the most deplorable people in the world made a good point.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 month 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.
Cossty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If pewdiepie is one of the most deplorable people in the world you know of. You must live in some kind of alternative universe and in paradise.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
The president is pewmypie? I had no idea!
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never watched him, but isn’t he just a Twitch streamer?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The enemy of my enemy or some shit.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
What’s he done to earn that title really? We live in a world of genocide, pointless wars and rapists.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
I was surprised that the video was actually quite good.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Calling this guy an ass shows that you have no idea who he is. You’re probably the type of person who thinks they’re well informed but exclusively get their info from echo chambers like Lemmy.
november@lemmy.vg 5 weeks ago
🙄
kemsat@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month ago
bro, open your mind for a minute. Privacy is for everyone. And we need masses wanting privacy otherwise nothing changes.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I think you’re seeing the wrong causation when it comes to enshittification. FOSS licenses prevent that sort of thing from happening. Linux is already, by far and away, the most popular server OS so consumers moving to it isn’t going to make it worse.
I dunno, maybe be less of a hipster bestie?
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
How are you going to do that advertising using one of their products? He has 100M followers and he’s a multi millionare, he should close his youtube account and move in another platform
november@lemmy.vg 5 weeks ago
Good point. People should only advocate for dgoogling on platforms full of people who have already degoogled. It’s stupid to try and reach people still using Youtube.