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I don’t particularly watch/like PewDiePie, but he is joining the train and spreading the word, which is awesome. He is self hosting services and using GrapheneOS now.
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Pretty good video. It’s not like he explains how to do anything or even picks very good software to begin with, but his genuine excitement is really all that’s required. Getting people interested is the important part, and they’ll learn much better by using their own motivation. This video also gives off a strong “I’m an idiot, and if I can do it you can do it” vibe which can be really reassuring to those who are just too intimidated to even dip their toe in.
My problem is that I feel like the idiot among idiots so I’m still intimidated by it. I want to eventually take the plunge, but I am genuinely so fucking stupid when it comes to tech that I’m afraid I will break something if I try, lol.
If you’re competent enough to use Lemmy, you’re absolutely competent enough to run Linux for most purposes.
Honestly, it’s a bit more of a stretch, but if you’re competent enough to plug in a USB drive you’re probably competent enough to install Linux. And most of Lemmy would be here to help you!
My sweet, darling, luddite of a partner struggles with changing the ringtone on his phone, but didn’t run into problems using linux.
You’re fine.
Crazy to see people stating that they never saw a video of him, but I guess the intersection of his audience and the fediverse is predictably low, especially in a degoogle community.
His recent arc with Linux and now this are pretty nice though.
He’s collected fuck you money ten times over from YouTube already. He can be done with everything and never work again.
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hey me too. also, I still don’t know who PewDiePie is.
what I would give to be you
bruh de-googling is way harder than not knowing what a PewDiePie is. I’m trying but not even close.
Google asks me to sign in every time I try to google something and switches to the google app. Google can go fuck itself.
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Well, that was the first PewDiePie video I’ve ever watched…
Strange that he didn’t mention leaving YouTube behind though!
It was like the first thing, he said he can’t escape that. But pretty much everything else.
I imagine he’s one who could ditch YouTube.
He could spin up his own PeerTube instance just for him to post to. Then tell everyone to follow him there and Mastodon. If only 20% of his audience does it, he’d still make out like a bandit.Like, where exactly is the revenue stream there? I’m on peertube and that isn’t paying off for me yet lol
Sponsorships, Ad reads, Product placement.
He doesn’t need Google inserting ads, they pay pennies compared to other direct deals.All of those venues wont be reaching out to you if you are not on YouTube or have enough reach on a different platform. I do hope content creators post on multiple platform but it is not reasonable to think that they can just flip a switch and start posting outside of YouTube.
Of course! Which is why I said 20% of his audience would need to switch with him. And obviously there would be a transition. Nobody said anything to suggest otherwise.
My point was more on the sponsorship rather than the transition. Even if you manage to move 20% of the audience, the sponsorship amount would be less than 20%. Most companies play it safe and allocate budget for proven marketing platforms and wouldn’t be willing to put much on a new platform. So while it takes someone to switch platform and convince their audience, there wouldn’t be adsense money or sponsorships with no guarantee they would even make 10% of what they used to make on YouTube. Most youtubers are after the money and if anyone is doing it as full time job, that would be an unreasonable request.
