PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

Used phones: exist

Users who constantly repost this same comment: "doesn't look like anything to me."

I'm running lineage os on a Motorola moto g7 power (2019) Android 15 runs fine on a 6 year old phone.

"work" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here when talking about a Fairphone. Worst phone I ever owned with quite some margin.

Really? What's your favorite custom ROM for modern iPhones?

Hey, it could be stolen.

and trying to get on the grift train of hating google. seems like hes some what desperate to comeback to yt, trying to recapture old glory days, of course all that sweet money comes with it.

For Pewdiepie this makes a lot of sense, he was literally the top youtuber. But uploading also somewhere else (no exclusivity required) needs to become mainstream yesterday. We have technical colleges far from the US posting educational video content for a website embed on youtube only, it's madness 😅

Pobodies nerfect....

Self hosting an email server is a pain in the ass and I don't really recommend it.

Buying your own domain and using it in whatever email provider you want is very easy and gives you ownership over the email address. You may switch providers freely without needing anyone else to do anything.

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

Didn’t try to host a domain myself yet, but having it set up with Proton has given me zero problems thus far.

And soft lock yourself… log in to the DNS portal you need 2FA from your email… while your email is having DNS issues lol

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.

Whatever name fits your fancy. Go with solid registrars like Namecheap or cloudflare.

Once you get your domain, you can use most any email provider to handle mail for that domain. Fastmail is really good. Or proton if you want the encryption.

Furrysmurfporn.ai is available

Get something on .com or .net. Vanity tlds will piss off reputation services. And make sure you set up spf/dkim

Even just mirroring.

Is there a tool already that makes it easy to upload to both? Idk, I haven't uploaded a video since like the 10s

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.

Wait for it, I bet a whole bunch of people mentioned it in the comments of this one. That will probably be the topic of his next video. Although I'm hoping for stopkillinggames.com.

I think they are the only people able to do something like that. Hosting videos is expensive as ... you know. But if someone can do it, its them.

It still baffles me why anyone likes him in the first place tbh

How about LBRY? Do you think it's a sane alternative to YT? I also think peertube is the true freedom, though, I was surprised how quick videos load on odysee

I mean... glass half full or half empty... You can appreciate how enthusiastic he was about it and how many people saw the video, or you can just complain... Btw. if he should do more, it will be the positive feedback he gets about it, not the negative one which is just demotivating...

Let's hope so.

What's next, Open source electric car? Building and living in an Earth Ship?

He'll be crawling around xmpp chatrooms talking about anarchists soon.

Is it though? I never paid any attention to him, so I only know that one time he made some kids make a sign with heil Hitler or something like that (which from what I've read was just a joke in bad taste, he isn't a nazi or major racist). Otherwise, I haven't heard anything bad about him, he was just never someone I cared to know more about and watch, seemed to be mostly for kids. Please, correct anything I've said if I'm wrong.

I was just thinking about this: more evidence of the Minecraft to Linux self hosting pipeline.

The programming socks will be the first sign.

Didn't realize the N word was family friendly lol

He got backlash from his own fans from all edgy and toxic jokes. I remember some of his Indian fans are angry for his PewDiePie vs T-series stuff (T-series: Indian music company).

I think around 2019, he apologized and recognized all the edginess he did, and promised to do better.

For the last five years, all of his content are basically wholesome family stuff or creative activities. Even his recent art journey video are widely shared among young art communities that's not even his fans.

Yeah this is why it's so offputting seeing so much praise for him here. I don't believe he's ever outright apologized and owned up to what he's said and done in the past (I could be wrong though?). Last I checked the dude was literally a neo nazi.

I really don't get how so many people here are so happy that a Nazi is using Linux and doesn't like Google anymore. That's not the kind of clown I'd want representing or being a spokesperson for my interests and it's really making me second guess the people here.

Edit: @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 's comment has provided info I didn't have, and recontextualizes the attitudes here I wasn't understanding, so now I get why there's support for this.

Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.

But not Youtube. Which is Google.

Curious.

anything but google maps, kodi, etc.

You had me unti kodi was lumped in with google maps?

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.

they're responding to other comments, like about Pewdiepie being a nazi.

In short, a bunch of years ago he did some stunts for publicity that put him in a bad light. And don't get me wrong, he deserved criticism back then. But it quickly became apparent that it wasn't his view, but just that - a publicity stunt, something to drive algorithms etc, and he also apologised for it and what's more important, didn't make similiar shit afterwards.

So no, not a nazi. In the past you could call him edgy or something, alas even that doesn't really fit as he didn't do this all the time. But people saw he is popular and saw what he did and decided that no matter that these were one-offs, he must be a nazi, secretely harbor a shrinet o Hitler and all that.

Do you want to continue posturing and fishing for confirmation from other edgy teenage minds, or do you want the answer?

You should see reddit or any other mainstream social media for that matter, I assure you it gets much worse. In fact people on lemmy are mosltly normal.

"calls another YouTube channel bitch lasagna" that was years ago right? These days he seems more calm and almost no toxicity whatsoever other than rarely saying shit, fuck, or generic swear word.

I don't think there is much in the way of alternatives. Scaling to millions of users is very hard.

Ty

he misses the day where he was top youtuber shilling for google, and all that sweet money, thats why hes trying to low key come back, need more money and glory from his old days, after hiding in japan.

They are also way too small in terms of storage given that they don’t support external cards (Apple is similar). Google/Apple definitely want buyers to also buy their subscription storage services or pay the high premium for the next storage level.

I’m on an XR right now and it feels older, but still very much usable. I wish companies offered options to only get security patches instead of having to buy new phones every few years, that’s the 1 thing I hope Google keeps around and doesn’t walk back in the future.

Yeah, part of why I want to get one soon is to have a semi recent phone before they can't do graphene properly anymore

What do the other two do better?

The cost of buying a pixel is the only thing stopping me. I don't have enough to replace my aging phone with much of anything, let alone a pixel.

GMaps -> car GPS

What? No. OSM or literally anything else than a fucking car. Stars and sextant.

• Gmail -> proton

I recommend Tuta over Proton. They're much more focused on their core product (not making their own crypto wallet or VPN or storage service or password manager), plus Tuta's leadership has never endorsed US Republicans, unlike Proton's

I think he actually used something else than proton, he didn’t mention though. Except that he uses his own domain name.

I drive believe he has started hosting his own email though

Not all heros wear capes

Tailscale -> Headscale after you get comfy.

All I know is they took down the ones by LTT and Jeff Geerling, I can only assume it was due to the larger audience those two attracted. Now imagine PewDiePie...

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.

I'm talking about those who have already gotten big, like PewDiePie or Good Mythical Morning (the latter of which started on their own website before youtube even existed, btw). Not the dude who just started a channel last week and has nothing to do shit with.

Yeah, even an established creator is going to have a hard time moving their audience.

If YouTube weren't a near monopoly it would be different. Then other companies would be competing for creators.

Making it worse is section 1201 of the DMCA. It makes it a crime to circumvent access controls. In the past, Facebook was able to grow by providing tools to interface with MySpace. People didn't have to abandon their MySpace friends, they could communicate with them through Facebook, and Facebook could ensure that messages sent on its platform arrived to people still on MySpace. But, if you tried that today Facebook has access controls in place that make that a crime. The same applies to YouTube. Nobody can build a seamless "migrate away from YouTube" experience because YouTube will use the DMCA to block them.

The governments of the world need to bring back antitrust with teeth and force interoperability.

Sauce plus and dropout as well. Basically run by youtubers to make content without relying on YouTube. A lot of this is running on pre-existing tech for running a streaming service and I assume it's dependent on AWS (Amazon) hosting but yeah lots of smaller paid streaming services run by youtubers because YouTube sucks. I believe sauce plus is essentially the same as Floatplane on the backend, they mentioned working with LTT to make it.

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.