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submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by FoolHen@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

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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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It was like the first thing, he said he can't escape that. But pretty much everything else.

[–] Steve@communick.news 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 11 hours ago

He gets a good chunk of money off YouTube.

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Like, where exactly is the revenue stream there? I'm on peertube and that isn't paying off for me yet lol

[–] Steve@communick.news 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sponsorships, Ad reads, Product placement.
He doesn't need Google inserting ads, they pay pennies compared to other direct deals.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Steve@communick.news 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

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.