Pewds has been dabbling more in Linux and engineering content lately, and considering he’s essentially retired and doesn’t rely on YouTube ad revenue anymore, wouldn’t it be amazing if he also started posting his videos on PeerTube in parallel?

He can definitely afford to support decentralized platforms and wouldn’t be held back by monetization concerns. With his reach, even just mirroring his content to PeerTube could bring massive attention to the Fediverse. Do you think he’d ever consider it?

  • Kierunkowy74@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    PewDiePie posting on PeerTube will result with many of his videos being viewed on PeerTube. But either:

    • he would make an instance only for himself and majority of his viewers would fail to make a Fediverse account to follow him, or
    • he would open that instance for his viewers to make a account there, but then he would be liable for every comment made by his viewers, or
    • he would make an account on already existing instance, making a great burden of moderating his viewers for existing administration and moderation team.

    An entire network cannot be effectively marketed and accomodate a new users’ wave as well as any centralised website, like YouTube, or Bluesky.