The fact that PewDiePie might have a right-leaning following, that he acquired by himself leaning right, which he now exposes to Freedom, using Libre Software, might actually be a good thing. Since exposing yourself to the philosophy of Free Software eventually leads to human rights and thus to the left, in a way. If PewDiePie course-correcting to the left like this, taking his enormous subscriber-base with him, IMO it is very good.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Idk. There's already plenty of right wingers (libertarians) in FLOSS spaces. I'd hate to see any more.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 99 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's plenty of neo-nazis in the Free Software movement. It's "Free Software", not "Free People"

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 days ago

sometimes it feels that there are more cryptofascists in the movement than other ideologies. luke smith is a prime example.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nazis are everywhere, not just OSS. Never seen one in OSS though

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Lunduke?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The problem with this is that it leaves left-leaning people using tech companies and slick, highly-produced products as status items. iphones and macbooks are still solid left-leaning status objects.

Also, the right doesn't mind being scrappy and using janky, poorly configured crap if it appears to meet their agenda. Nearly every right-leaning social media platform is either a platform with a Mastadon backend, or some early 2000's style forum.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i feel like you missed the time between 1990 and 2005 when american libertarians caused a schism in the free software movement by popularising open source.

[–] blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud 20 points 2 days ago

There is evidence already in that video that suggests that he is starting to lean more left. Like he pointed out the ecological issues with AI. Even though he did say "I don't like to be that guy" before saying that.

It seems like he is already doing some doubts and thinking that are signs of moving the left direction.

I'm trying to be the optimist here. If we want not just PewDiePie, but his subscribe-base to change sides, we need him to be extra careful and extra soft with this sort of change. He seem to know how to form good streams of thoughts and convincing narratives. This would take some serious carefulness on his part. And it seems like he is already taking small steps to do that.