PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

i don't want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what's his beef here

Just downloaded it and skimmed by frames... Seems to be a list of reasons to degoogle. Mentions privacy, security, and how Google is extending fingers into everyone's privacy by browser, password manager, wallet, phone, etc.
- Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
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?
- But not Youtube. Which is Google.
  Curious.
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

I'm loving Pewdie's redemption arc

has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
started with minecraft & redstone, now linux & degoogling, can we extrapolate that in some years pewd's gonna start hrt lol
- I was just thinking about this: more evidence of the Minecraft to Linux self hosting pipeline.
- The programming socks will be the first sign.
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
There's no redemption arc because he literally never did anything wrong. His content was always family friendly
- Didn't realize the N word was family friendly lol

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

Accurate once again

Three R’s to deGoogling: Reduce, replace, remove.

I would say start by changing your browser and search engine (lots of options out there today), and then set up your own domain for email hosting so you can try different providers.

There isn’t another YouTube with all that content out there, so that one is tough, but you don’t have to 100% de google, 50% is still good. 15% is still good.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
- Pobodies nerfect....
Despite the lack of content we should mention peertube any time possible to increase knowledge of it, if nothing else
Your own domain, but you're safer not hosting your own email servers in general. Just wanted to be clear for anyone reading this. If your mail server is down you don't get mail 🫠
I ended up using a service that isn't Google for that with my own domain
- And soft lock yourself… log in to the DNS portal you need 2FA from your email… while your email is having DNS issues lol
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?
- 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.
- Didn’t try to host a domain myself yet, but having it set up with Proton has given me zero problems thus far.
- 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
Nebula is an option for some content creators but it is subscription based.
- 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.
My own domain?!? Any suggestions??
- 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.
- Get something on .com or .net. Vanity tlds will piss off reputation services. And make sure you set up spf/dkim
- Furrysmurfporn.ai is available
set up your own domain for email hosting
cannot recommend this enough!
register your domain through something like porkbun
get an account with someone like mxroute.com (i am a fan, but not an affiliate or anything)
enjoy pain-free email for the rest of your life

I think it's ironic that the alternatives to Android (graphene, calyx) only fully work on Google phones.

Ditch Google
Step 1: Send them money
- Used phones: exist
  Users who constantly repost this same comment: "doesn't look like anything to me."
LineageOS works on a bunch of non google phones
- I'm running lineage os on a Motorola moto g7 power (2019) Android 15 runs fine on a 6 year old phone.
Thise are just different flavors. I need a pixel 8 pro xl equivalent device that runs linux natively. All thw postmarket phones are ancientx
That isn't really true especially with Calyx OS
Same reason it continually sucks to get a working Linux build on an apple laptop or desktop.
As bad as Google is, they're lightyears ahead of Apple in terms of protecting their products in a walled garden.
- Really? What's your favorite custom ROM for modern iPhones?
Doesnt calyxos also work on fairphone
- "work" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here when talking about a Fairphone. Worst phone I ever owned with quite some margin.
I would get a Nokia flip phone but they cost a bit. Cheaper to get something someone is throwing out

Er. 'I am done with Google'. Watch the video on YouTube...

I mean where else is he going to reach the most YouTube/Google users?
- 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 😅
“I’m done with capitalism” he writes on a phone paid for with 😧 MONEY 👻
- 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.
- Hey, it could be stolen.

Download the video before YouTube takes it down. I want to see that site flooded with reuploads if they do.

It will stay up. Do you know how many YouTube videos there are badmouthing Google? They don't care so long as you're watching them.
- 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 don’t care about his content, but I downloaded for historical preservation. If you’re willing to watch can you explain the beef?
- 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.
Upload it to Framatube and other YouTube Alternatives
If it stays up, it's certainly going to be interesting seeing the difference in view counts between it and his other videos.

I love this new arc of pewds, unimaginably based. I'm actually interested in watching his videos now after a looong time. The last three tech related ones were great.

Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube 🫠

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.
- Why would anyone watch a pewdiepie video?
- Why would i feed youtube?
  Let me know when it's on peertube, another video-centric platform.
  Lemmy's text-centric.
The thumbnail has a big ole X over the word youtube. I think he knows
Is there any service that can scale to millions of users?

How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?

watch the video and you will find out wink
- I prefer not to use youtube
Literally his income source
- I understand why he doesn't leave youtube but why not reposts on alternatives for people who want to limit the use of youtube
- Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.
  If he really hated Google, wouldn't he be motivated to invest his time into its competitors? Maybe he does, idk, I didn't watch the video because I'm not a fan of his style and I generally try to avoid YouTube.
Because YouTube has a monopoly for the most part
- Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.

One million hours in gimp

That's very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

It would be a larger influx of bullshit than even Reddit was able to pull off.
- I mean, I don't know of him now... he's way older and, seems significantly less immature than he was in the past, it's possible a good portion of his fanbase has also grown to be more tolerable.
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.
Hahaha I didn't think of that, chaos would ensue. I would be here for it though

Did he back away from right wing stupidity?

He was never right wing in the first place
- He did some edgy stuff in the past, but he is not Tucker Carlson or anything.
American history X

I’m sceptical of his steamdeck hosting solution :p hope he has backup for his files too

That's funny I've been DONE with poopoopie for a few years. Somehow people keep pushing this creep.

No, stop, come back...

Google, 2025

enough with PewDiePie posts!

Just block his name, I have trump and Elon and varations of their names black listed so posts with them don't show up on my feed.
- i have filters with elon musk, zuckerberg &c pewdeewhatever posts appeared in the last couple of days :/
I've seen one so far
- !degoogle@lemmy.ml + !graphene_os@lemmy.sdf.org + !selfhosted@lemmy.world + !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  i had 4 in a row
shrug

This wound up being a much better watch than I thought.

I'm sure all the reactions will be nothing but respectful and factual, and not riddled with festering teenage emotions.

This guy is a Nazi, remember?

If you don't let people make mistakes, change, and grow, you're living a petty, sad life.
- If he's a Nazi, I'm a trans queer Nazi.
Someone on Lemmy Linux pointed out his past in detail, and I agree he was DEFINETLY going through the far right pipeline.
However, he never continued it, never delved into it farther, never pushed that crap further (the dirtiest thing was hosting I think Shapiro for meme review, which while very bad, at least didn't keep that shit up. Do wish he'd delete the video though), and seems to have changed paths after getting into actual philosophy. He's never been a politician who's destroyed people's lives or a billionaire or called for people to be harmed, either.
If we hold people like him to the same likeness of people like Musk or Shapiro etc, progressiveness will lose the cultural war to fascism. By equating any potential ally into an enemy, you only destroy your cause, and certainly only help fascists far more.
No, he isnt. Repeating false information ad nauseum doesn't make it true.
The only people who have called this guy a nazi are terminally online far left jackoffs who get all their information from other jackoffs in the same echo chambers.
Take your brain out of the gutter
i like how all the arguments about "he's not a nazi" are just "he's being quiet about it".
call me when he explicitly addresses and recants that shit and takes that content down.

Cartman brah

Who?

Never heard of him

TLDR?

Generic degoogling/google alternatives video from Pewdiepie, but he won't get rid of Youtube.
- 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.

People listen to mister nobodies on the internet like they are prophets...

And who are you, exactly? I don't like pewdiepie, or at least I haven't since I was a literal teenager. He's a strange person with a strong ego at times, but I'm all for more mainstream exposure to de-Googling, linux, and self-hosting. Just take the win.
- Opinion discarded. Bye.
He's one of the biggest and most loved youtube personalities. He has influence, and him saying this kind of stuff is a big deal. Pretending he's a nobody shows that you're simply ignorant.
- Ignorant is everyone like you, worshipping these useless "celebrities", my dear clown. Now, you can go back licking YouTubers' ass and proudly let everyone know.

Who?

He’s the millennial Mr beast

itt lemmy.world users 'splain to everyone else how they're in an echo chamber while simping for a nazi

I'm done with Google! Watch me rant on Google's Youtube! Earns me money!

So... yeah.

Why are we giving neonazis attention, again?