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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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[–] 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 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 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.