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?
The last thing we want is for the fediverse to be promoted by Nazi association.
Well, not the last last, but still bad enough.
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.
Im not sure I want to draw from PewDiePie influenced adopters.
This is called gate keeping
And I like it.
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He can host his own instance, then you’re free to block it.
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More so for being/cosplaying (same thing) as a fucking nazi https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
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“Kjellberg tacitly compares himself to Hitler, gives a Nazi salute, and shows a series of clips of Nazi imagery, including a crowd of Nazis saluting, Nazi soldiers marching, and footage of Hitler Youth.”
Yeah, if you don’t see “nazi” after that, that’s on you I think.
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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.
Yeah his fans are little assholes too.
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.
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.
he still has a following on youtube surprisingly on his vlogs, like 1+million views.
They can tell them to spread out registrations.
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.
people still defend him like its nothing he fled to japan because controversy dint reach the country, he stayed off the radar him getting married is irrelevant when compared to what he did, and he dint officially apologize. basically pulled a sniperwolf, disappeared for a while and came back. im agreeing with you.
the issue is should people jump different platforms, because an influencer like him said so. and the other commentor said you should forgive him because it has ben 7 years, people dont forget hate attacks, especially if he has not felt consequences or amended his past. he just ran.
Please, no.
He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.
I haven’t ever followed it. Do we know if him adopting Linux have an effect on his audience?
The last thing we need is more nazi apologists, let alone loud nazi apologists with a loud fanbase
Unless he joins fedia.io you don’t really get a say in what he does… kind of the entire point behind decentralization…
Tha fuck is a pewds?
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Wasn’t that nazi stuff debunked?
I don’t see how switching country helps to run away from the internet.
Yeah, the guy never lived in the U.S. I don’t think.
asia doesnt care as much as the west about drama, hence he would be relatively unknown there.
You’re reading into this too much imo
Nothing would help peertube because the quality of content get better. People will quickly leave peertube
PewDiePie built his fame and fortune on a centralized platform.
I am not certain whether he will see the benefit of a decentralized future beyond dollar signs.
Happy to be proven wrong.
I mean, there’s been a lot of Youtubers who move to Linux and then eventually get interested in FOSS and all of its related stuff (like Fediverse) stuff so it is possible. This would be the first time someone on PewDiePie’s level has done it though so who knows.
