Having such a big influencer as Pewds shout out selfhosting, ad blocking and general privacy improvements is a huge win, no matter what your opinion is of him.
Submitted 14 hours ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nL-Eq1lpDU
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Sunny@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 9 hours ago
I’m always open to somebody’s redemption arc, even if I dislike them. The great thing about people is that we are capable of growth, even if not all of us always grow in the right direction, we always can.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Sometimes infinite monkeys do write the source code for doom and run it on a thermometer
zbyte64@awful.systems 11 hours ago
A win for who? Sounds like he will deter some people and attract others based on whether they think checks notes anti-Semitism is a deal breaker. Jesus Christ this is pathetic.
anthropozaen@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Antisemitism, based on that one clip where he deliberately did something controversial to check boundaries of freelancers? Perhaps it wasn’t the brightest idea he’s ever had to upload this but framing him as such is a bit much I think. Like with his bridge-incident, I don’t think anyone would seriously call him racist for that.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
What concerns me is the implicit association people will make between him and FOSS, and anything they believe about one will carry to the other.
I have to assume there are already people who hear “Linux” and think “ugh, I wouldn’t touch that with a 10ft pole because I don’t want anything to do with Pewdiepie”. Similarly, if he says something dumb next week, and half his audience abandons him, they’ll likely have a negative outlook on FOSS going forward.
Either way, I don’t believe FOSS’ staying power comes from meteoric rises following a fad, it comes from a natural immunity to enshittification over time. On the scale of a few of decades, FOSS seems like it’s struggling against proprietary solutions. But just like the general concept of political democracy, I think on the scale of centuries it will become the clear, time-tested, least-bad option. But I digress.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
If they are at that level of critical thinking they would not have survived Linux anyway so, idc.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Eh, don’t worry about it. If people are seeking out Linux for their own valid reasons, they’ll take what they need and leave what they don’t.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Her helped usher in this new enshittification. He was the Trojan horse. First one to reach a million
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
you think he has influence over youtube’s business model decisions?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Didnt know pewds is breaching into the tech sphere (from gaming).
Do I need to sub him now? :pEk-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 hours ago
His redemption arch is in full swing.
He has a video on “I switched to Linux, and you should too” and a geGoogle video
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Love what you did there. Arch btw
Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Beyond his interest in FOSS and privacy, he’s also just mellowed out a ton, the dude is in his mid (late?) thirties and you can tell.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Dude is also wealthy as fuck. That helps a ton.
Havatra@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I’ve never been into his content but I really enjoyed his journey to build a better local LLM. Way more technical than I thought he was capable of.
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Fuck this nazi bag of shit.
inzen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Why? What did he do?
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
He made a loose nazi joke like 10 years ago and the reaction was hilarious. He’s definitely not a nazi
Padit@feddit.org 4 hours ago
I dont really understand, is it possible to block JUST the shorts on Youtube? Any idea where i can find more about that?
I dont want to leave youtube just yet, but occasionally the shorts are melting my brain.
imjustmsk@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
I still use YouTube but never sign in, so basically I just search for what I wanna watch, Instead of subscribing I just have the channels I want in am RSS feed.
I might consider self hosting Invidious maybe.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Smarttube will block shorts, works best on TVs and large screen devices.
YouTube revanced will as well, make sure you download the right one, lots of fakes out there.
old.reddit.com/…/simplest_way_to_get_the_official…
Not sure if you can filter out shorts within browsers with something like u lock origin filters, may need to look into it.
Shorts are literally brainrot. Fuck tiktok, fuck shorts.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
“YouTube Enhanced” add-on lets you block them on Firefox and Chrome.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Vanced lets you remove the tab and remove the full portrait default, think it pulls shorts from results too.
A much better experience
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
On android you can hide/remove with revanced.
fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Revanced not working so well lately…
fluxx@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
There is an extension for Firefox for blocking shorts. You lose the shorts button and any short you access through a link is converted into a regular, full size video.
Gojo_Luffy@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Seconding ReVanced. RVX works like a charm. Not ready to leave the Google ecosystem just yet. But, when I do, I’ll switch to primarily using NewPipe.
I’m also keeping track of Haven as they may be an up and coming YT alternative for artists and creatives. They’re currently in seed funding so it’ll be interesting to see if they can get off the ground.
InTheNameOfScheddi@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
On Android you can remove shorts with Brave
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I think he’s a tool, but credit where it’s due: it’s great that he’s supporting the movement, and he does have a huge following.
aksdb@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Maybe he’s the right tool for the job
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t think he’s as dumb as he seems in some videos. His persona and mannerisms are very much a pan-Scandinavian thing. To me it’s a throwback to the early 00’s, when we filled our brains with plenty of Jackass, Blink 182 and Eric Cartman.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
There’s some irony in that sponsor block has to block four segments of the video.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
I don’t think there’s any irony in people trying to make money with their work. And I’d much much MUCH rather have them insert multiple sponsors in a video that I can just skip over than worry about ads and their constant tracking.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 minutes ago
The irony is making boatloads of money and then pulling up the ladder behind him while he can make his money anyhow, because he’s already got a critical base under him.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Self-hosting is a literal addiction. lol
I started with just an invidious instance and now I have my own audiobooks app that I’m also turning into a navidrome client. Did I say jellyfin and pihole, too?MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 hours ago
If you have bought audiobooks on audible that you would like to add to your own server, I can recomment Libation or this great docker image of it that comes with vnc so you host it headlessly on your server hub.docker.com/r/ceramicwhite/libation
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 hours ago
It really is 😅
I never thought that I’d want to spend my Saturdays fiddling with servers, but here I am
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Pihole, then Jellyfin here.
I now have way too much IT stuff on my room :D
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Yeah I started my journey with an old laptop but I found the precariousness of it all too stressful, always in more fear I’m gonna lose my photo library so just stuck with the cloud in the end. Nice knowing it’s there for when I need it
jak0b@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I love everything he has been doing recently. He is a master of story telling and goes surprisingly far into solving technology challenges, while keeping it fun and real. What an amazing transformation really
Burghler@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
He did already have a background vocationally in this space so it wasn’t a transformation from nothing. Great stuff nonetheless!
tio_bira@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wasn’t his n*zi prank and all his racist shit who began the youtube downhill ?
I genuine asking, i’m not from u.s. and never watched a single video from him in all my life, i only knew him from have the youtube channel with most suscribers and the clip on PUBG bridge.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Why the fuck are you censoring Nazi. You can say fucking Nazi online. You can say fuck if you want to.
Why the FUCK are you bowing to the corpo overlords.
harmbugler@piefed.social 5 hours ago
The censoring increases engagement
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You can say Nazi. Self censorship doesn’t help anyone other than advertisers
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
How does self censorship help advertisers?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Yeah. He had that moment, but that’s ages ago. Give it a break, dude.
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
He can start by removing himself from YouTube.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
He really went far from the Misogynist, racist piece of shit that made rape jokes, and who’s humor consisted of saying pussy every second line.
peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
you do not have to hand it to nazis fun fact
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I don’t understand what’s going on with this redemption arc
LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
I block minuses too
SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 7 hours ago
Love Pewds :D
schwim@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
I love to get the important self-hosting and ad-blocking info from my favorite anti-semite.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Good on him for this. I started self-hosting a couple years back, so my “tech fence” is already fairly complete, with a few glaring omissions, still a WIP.
I do wish he got someone to provide links to guides or wiki pages, but I understand that making people go out and search for things is also important, even if it’s a simple task to search on google/github for open source projects.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 11 hours ago
I have no idea who this guy is. I’ve seen his name float around on the internet but never knew what he did.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Many Welps left side
30p87@feddit.org 10 hours ago
What a fucking nice guy
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
can already tell this is gonna be the most insufferable comment section of all time
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