Nothing would help peertube because the quality of content get better. People will quickly leave peertube
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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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.
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....
Context?
He is not a Nazi apologist at all lmao.
He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like "death to Jews" or something like that. He didn't think they would actually do it and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.
When he got backlash for the "joke" by mainstream media he felt they were purposely twisting things around in a certain way to make him look worse and he was going to prove it. He then wore a British WW2 military officers uniform for a video where he claimed they would purposely cut the video to misrepresent things and that's exactly what happened. They claimed he doubled down and wore a Nazi uniform because he was a Nazi.
Not long after that whole debacle he then had the infamous "bridge incident" where he called some random gamer the n word while he was live on twitch playing PUBG. He made an apology video after that where he said: “It was something I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to make any excuses as to why it did, because there are no excuses for it.”
Absolutely worth being criticized for the things he did in his past, but I don't think it's fair to cancel the guy forever because of those things. Especially when it appears that he has grown up quite significantly since those days.
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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...
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.
Tha fuck is a pewds?
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.
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
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.
This please. It’s totally fracturing and also misleading, especially in cases when the dead community has the highest # of subscribers!
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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
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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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 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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
People singlehandedly supporting communities about popular topics might disagree
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.
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
We're far away from thousands of votes and comments per post, don't worry.
[email protected] is full of people trying to build communities about popular topics, only to be shouting into the void
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.
The only way it'll ever come is if the userbase grows.
Problem is a lot of people don't remember early reddit it was the same way lots of tech folks then grew organic from there.
I haven't ever followed it. Do we know if him adopting Linux have an effect on his audience?
There's no way that it doesn't
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.
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.
A few weeks ago, so Pewds probably wasn't it.
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