PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
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Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
How are you going to do that advertising using one of their products? He has 100M followers and he's a multi millionare, he should close his youtube account and move in another platform
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I think it's ironic that the alternatives to Android (graphene, calyx) only fully work on Google phones.
Doesnt calyxos also work on fairphone
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That boy doing so much work for privacy and linux communities. I love it!
Can we stop with the narrative that corporations and celebrities are doing good? This guy is 110 Million people away from doing something for privacy and linux, once he makes 110 million and one person switch to linux or using a youtube alternative he will have done some work in the positive.
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Your own domain for email hosting is a massive pain in the ass. Have you not run into a million problems with other hosting providers refusing you for possibly spam?
No, not I don’t self host my email which is where a lot of the trouble comes from
I don’t remember having any issues with it ever. That was a concern so I did slowly transition to the custom domain
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Did he back away from right wing stupidity?
American history X
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Where did you get it?
Not OP, but Swappa.com is an excellent website for buying used tech at a good price.
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Nebula is an option for some content creators but it is subscription based.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wish more creators would move to Nebula. I joined on Grady from Practical Engineering's recommendation. His stuff is great.
I haven't quite figured out how to use PeerTube yet.
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Where did you get it?
Kleinanzeigen (Germany)
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Any influencer that relies on YouTube ad money won't make the full jump.
Other than that, they'll very quickly find out that keeping a video focused service running and serving 10k views daily (300k/mon) is very expensive both in storage and bandwidth.
The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue
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Streaming video is expensive. LTT did it with Floatplane, even going so far as to develop their own backend. Watcher and some other YouTubers did it with Vimeo as their backend, but Vimeo still takes a large cut.
At the end of the day, people are doing this, but YouTube still offers a compelling value compared to other platforms. It’s hard to beat their scale, sophistication, and the discoverability of their platform.
Yeah I know some big german youtubers who years ago were like "we need to be more independent from youtube" and set up their own website. Every year the costs for hosting that would take out a huge cut of their earnings, so at the start of 2025 they finally gave up and said they couldnt pour even more money into that project as it simply wasnt profitable.
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Where would be a general purpose place to use as the second platform? Something that's easy to use (and ofc not even more immoral than youtube, so not rumble or things like that).
A lot of the better creators are on Nebula. I don’t think they’d take Pewds though.
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GMaps -> car GPS
What? No. OSM or literally anything else than a fucking car. Stars and sextant.
He emphasized that for him living in Japan and mainly needing to use maps in order to navigate, the japanese car GPS is the best fit.
Which obviously is very different for people in a different situation.
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Where would be a general purpose place to use as the second platform? Something that's easy to use (and ofc not even more immoral than youtube, so not rumble or things like that).
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He never was. When teenagers used to scream n-word for shit and giggles, he was monetarily incentivised to do stupid stunts. No belief behind, other than to have a laugh and jump in views. When he crossed the line and was critised for it, he backed off, apologised and learned from his mistakes.
But people love draging it out each and every single time he does anything, be it good or bad.
Hm, I'm not sure about that. There was a point in time where he was - even outside his videos - engaging with Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk. Echoing their philosophies and world views.
The alt-right was using him and his platform to lure teenagers in. It's possible that Felix did not even realize what was happening there. Or he was brainwashed himself for some time.The important thing is that from 2019 onwards he clearly distanced himself from any of that.
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Did he back away from right wing stupidity?
What was right wing about him?
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Did he back away from right wing stupidity?
He was never right wing in the first place
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Throwing it out there - I am tired of left always acting as if something done decade ago was still fresh. Pewds changed, he flipped his whole video formula, and even back then evil things he did were at least questionable. Let it go folks. You are doing nothing else than making yourself look like bitter old people.
Edit: I noticed it's not obvious what I am talking about. Other comments. People constantly talking about how Pewds is a nazi.
He literally never did anything evil or bad. This is a myth that was entirely created by the far left, who falsely call everything fascist, despite never watching his content.
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There's no redemption arc because he literally never did anything wrong. His content was always family friendly
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Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
Calling this guy an ass shows that you have no idea who he is. You're probably the type of person who thinks they're well informed but exclusively get their info from echo chambers like Lemmy.
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That's very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.
That would literally be the best this to happen to this god forsaken platform. There isn't nearly enough users, diversity of content, or sheer volume to make this place a genuine alternative to Reddit. Getting an influx from a huge youtuber like him means this place might finally get active communities for mainstream hobbies like sports, music, and videogames.
