PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
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i don't want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what's his beef here
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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Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
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.
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I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.
Why would anyone watch a pewdiepie video?
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That boy doing so much work for privacy and linux communities. I love it!
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How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?
watch the video and you will find out wink
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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.
bro, open your mind for a minute. Privacy is for everyone. And we need masses wanting privacy otherwise nothing changes.
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I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.
Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
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I was actually kinda wondering the other day why super large content creators with good cash flow from what they already do, don't ditch Google and Patreon or anything else that takes a cut to be nothing more than a middleman to accessing the content? They don't need to host on the same level as YouTube; they could probably make more money hosting their videos on their own website, where they can control what is free or paid for, and can work directly with advertisers themselves.
wrote last edited by [email protected]hosting their videos on their own website
I love that entrepreneurial attitude. If an online service is unsatisfactory, just develop your own software from the ground up and provision the infrastructure from your pocket. Car industry sucks? Just build your own car! GPU prices high? Grab a soldering iron and a handful of sand, how hard could it be?
Things are always more complex than they appear. The whole point of services like Youtube and Patreon is to offload that complexity onto the provider in exchange for a fee (or some other form of compensation) from the user. Just look at how many early Lemmy instances have gone offline because of the overwhelming financial or administrative burden. Hate the companies all you like, and by all means look for independent solutions, but don't pretend they offer no value whatsoever.
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Accurate once again
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i don't want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what's his beef here
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
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That boy doing so much work for privacy and linux communities. I love it!
Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.
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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.
anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?
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Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
Exactly!
So has anyone tried this pewpowpie recipe and does it taste any good? -
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That's going to be one long arc though
He'll be crawling around xmpp chatrooms talking about anarchists soon.
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watch the video and you will find out wink
I prefer not to use youtube
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I just use down sub to pull the transcript from his video It's only 60% as annoying.
He has the normal privacy versus cost worries which are reasonably valid. Then he rambles on, plugs a product that he's shilling that's unrelated to the subject matter, says he's replacing Google search with a local LLM, does some hot takes on alternatives, does some reasonable takes on some alternatives.
To be honest, this is probably the least helpful de-googling video I've seen, other than the fact that he's a major influencer and is telling everyone they should be doing it.
this is probably the least helpful de-googling video
I don't think it was supposed to be particularly helpful. It's more of him sharing his passion with his audience. Which isn't going to be interesting if you don't care about him.
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anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?
I don't think they're including Kodi with Google maps, I think they're just continuing with the list.
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Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
To be fair, watching random YouTube videos can be demotivating. A transcript would be much nicer.
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Same, it feels surreal.
I was typing out in the comments that he should try nextcloud before I finished the video, and towards the end I saw that he was running Nextcloud. Fantastic
