• Sips'@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    Having such a big influencer as Pewds shout out selfhosting, ad blocking and general privacy improvements is a huge win, no matter what your opinion is of him.

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      5 days ago

      I’m always open to somebody’s redemption arc, even if I dislike them. The great thing about people is that we are capable of growth, even if not all of us always grow in the right direction, we always can.

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          4 days ago

          …one step at a time, dude. This kind of thinking just serves to make perfect the enemy of good.

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            4 days ago

            It takes 2 minutes to create an account on the fediverse, they are not interested in that, they are on youtube for the profits.

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      4 days ago

      And having a youtube video on lemmy frontpage is a huge ad for google and a missed opportunity for an open alternative to become more popular

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        4 days ago

        Dunno about “huge ad” exactly… There arent that many of us here lol.

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          4 days ago

          Not huge maybe but for what i care a big smack in the face to this open source and decentralized platform.

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      5 days ago

      A win for who? Sounds like he will deter some people and attract others based on whether they think checks notes anti-Semitism is a deal breaker. Jesus Christ this is pathetic.

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        5 days ago

        Antisemitism, based on that one clip where he deliberately did something controversial to check boundaries of freelancers? Perhaps it wasn’t the brightest idea he’s ever had to upload this but framing him as such is a bit much I think. Like with his bridge-incident, I don’t think anyone would seriously call him racist for that.

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          5 days ago

          He’s too dumb to be intentionally racist but he’s a great spoke person for your cause. 🙄

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              4 days ago

              You have two masters and one is problematic. It’s nice that your master said kind things about the other, but you still have two masters.

              Edit: I don’t follow the guy, I only know that this is a good thing only IF y’all convince others PewDiePie is a good guy actually.

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                Bro are you schizophrenic? What are you talking about, I have no “masters”. And I don’t say that pewdiepie is a “good guy”, I just said that I wouldn’t judge him based on such minor things.

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                  4 days ago

                  It’s an analogy that illustrates that you are doing his PR work in order to serve an unrelated cause. Is that clear enough to understand or do you want to send people with butterfly nets after me?

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          5 days ago

          Yeah like how many years ago was that? Lets just believe people can’t better themselves and hold things against them forever. What an awful reality that would be

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            5 days ago

            Friend… in a now deleted instagram post he was caught with a “international jewish conspiracy” book in the background.

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              that is not a “jewish” conspiracy book. iv read it and yes "enslavement is a strong word for it. but it does illuminate a few patterns on the growth of economy and abuses within them over history.

              and also if it carried no weight then why is it widely banned.

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              Damn which one is this? The one in the middle? If so thats quite recent bc I follow his content and his pc build is pretty new. Crazy conspiracy theory nutjob content in there. Its a pretty huge red flag since it aligns with the patterns in his edgy phase (during which I didn’t actively follow him). Makes me sad to think I might have had a lot better image of him as a person in my head as what he really is. Thank you for informing me. I mean technically he could just be curious in obscene conspiracy theorists. Like people can read religious text while being atheist or read Mein Kampf as a historic artifact. This book does seem more fringe tho. As long as he is not promoting this kind of belief. Makes me think if all this together makes a different light of him tho. Maybe he owns the book from back then and didn’t throw it out. But he moved from the Uk to Japan so I still wonder why he would’ve kept it.

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                he fled to japan until all the drama blew over the years, most people forgot about him and latched on to the enxt big influencer, mr beast and the likes.