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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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 4 weeks ago

This is called gate keeping

And I like it.

[–] Kierunkowy74@piefed.social 17 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

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

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 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.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

Please, no.

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

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

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

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (15 children)
[–] simple@piefed.social 25 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month 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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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month 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 month 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.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month 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 month ago

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

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[–] Tillman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Tha fuck is a pewds?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 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.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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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[–] littleomid@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People singlehandedly supporting communities about popular topics might disagree

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@piefed.social 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We're far away from thousands of votes and comments per post, don't worry.

!fedigrow@lemm.ee is full of people trying to build communities about popular topics, only to be shouting into the void

[–] albert180@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The issue is also partially that of those migrating to Linux from windows, in that they try to match their experience, ignoring all the other features they now have acquired. Communities will come organically, when there’s enough people to warrant them. Lots of tech communities as Lemmy users are usually tech affine.

It’s fine if there is not a subreddit clone for everything here yet. Maybe it will come, maybe it won’t.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

The only way it'll ever come is if the userbase grows.

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I hope that lemmy doesn’t grow any heavier than it is growing right now

I hope for more like minded individuals to help them out

How is the latter supposed to happen without the former? Like it or not, many of us are here solely because Reddit went to shit with their extreme monetization. Lemmy is still a really small community and absolutely NEEDS larger adoption in order to remain a viable option

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's like with the AI Gen posts. If they are not willing to put in the effort to post something real. Why should I put in the effort to engage with their content.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True i like your idea of marking them. Just when people join a community i hate that they have wade through a mess of discarded clutter. To find the good places.

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[–] TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month 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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