Now that PewDiePie is on his Linux/engineering arc, could he help boost the Fediverse?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

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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FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hopefully not because fuck that asshole.

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- MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
  
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- joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  He can host his own instance, then you’re free to block it.
  
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  - FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I absolutely will. That guy is toxic af.
    
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- SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah his fans are little assholes too.
  
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- Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not liking someone is not a good reason to root against decentralized platforms, IMO. The entire point of decentralization is that nobody gets to control the experience and who is/isn’t allowed to participate.
  
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- propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  More censorship.
  
  We need better communities.
  
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HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Im not sure I want to draw from PewDiePie influenced adopters.

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- Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is called gate keeping
  
  And I like it.
  
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boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  gross how many people sitll defend PPD, no he fled from consequences and responsbility to JAPAN where it dint reach the country, he stayed off the radar him getting amrried is irrelevant when compared to what he did, and he dint officially apologize. basically pulled a sniperwolf, disappeared for a while and came back.
  
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  - Shayeta@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I remember him from over 10y ago when he played Amnesia and haven’t watched him until the linux video. What happened?
    
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Kierunkowy74@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
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- Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  he still has a following on youtube surprisingly on his vlogs, like 1+million views.
  
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- autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They can tell them to spread out registration.
  
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littleomid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I hope not. I hope that lemmy doesn’t grow any heavier than it is growing right now. The content is good, it’s enough, most threads have good comments. I don’t want this to become another Reddit. Lemmy is really good as is.

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- Blaze@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  People singlehandedly supporting communities about popular topics might disagree
  
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  - littleomid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    God bless those people. I hope for more like minded individuals to help them out, but I still would personally not wish for lemmy to have thousands of votes and comments per post. Quality over quantity for me personally.
    
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- lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This 100%, honestly what lemmy/mbin needs is a clean up of dead communities. That were created and abandoned during the reddit api exodus. As well as the active communities that are just a bot posting content from reddit and nothing else.
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yep. I’ve said this before, but I don’t understand how a community that only provides links to external communities is supposed to help Lemmy grow, as opposed to taking people away 🤷🏻‍♂️
    
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  - Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I think the software should start hiding/marking them in some way
    
    I don’t expect they will all be deleted, and I don’t even think it would be good to delete them because there could be a chance they start getting activity
    
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  - WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This please. It’s totally fracturing and also misleading, especially in cases when the dead community has the highest # of subscribers!
    
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- TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Same. Lemmy reminds me of how Reddit used to be ages ago. Discussions are actually elaborate and thoughtful. The quality of content is so much better. I fear if Lemmy gets too big the quality of content will decline
  
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- Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  than it is growing right now
  
  it’s not really growing though, if you look at MAU it’s shrinking
  
  we had a big bump at the end of March but we’ve been shrinking since then
  
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Please, no.

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

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Tillman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Tha fuck is a pewds?

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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I haven’t ever followed it. Do we know if him adopting Linux have an effect on his audience?

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- littleomid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
  
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  - FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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  - autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    gnucurious
    
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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There’s no way that it doesn’t
  
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lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tired of you people trying to foster an echo chamber.
  
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  - lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”.
    
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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- MoreZombies@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wasn’t that nazi stuff debunked?
  
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- UnfairUtan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re reading into this too much imo
  
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- autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t see how switching country helps to run away from the internet.
  
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  - Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    asia doesnt care as much as the west about drama, hence he would be reletively unknown there.
    
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  - LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, the guy never lived in the U.S. I don’t think.
    
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rumimevlevi@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nothing would help peertube because the quality of content get better. People will quickly leave peertube

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