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.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    23·
    23 hours ago

    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.

    • pr06lefs@lemmy.ml
      6·
      21 hours ago

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

      • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
        10·
        21 hours ago

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

        • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          17 hours ago

          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.newsEnglish
            2·
            11 hours 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.