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.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 20 minutes 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.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world -1 points 56 minutes ago

Didn't do that for me, still believe in human rights and don't embrace the left wing. I believe in the freedom to make contracts with people without the government telling you that your profits are too high or whatever the left wing is pushing for

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 66 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

Lunduke?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 23 points 18 hours 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.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You got a problem with open source? In /c/opensource?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

i've got a problem with what ESR calls open source.

like, the fact that free software is inherently political has been explored elsewhere in the thread, but the term "open source" was started by people who wanted to distance themselves from the free software movement due to them disliking that it was anti-commercial. the open source movement wanted more companies to adopt their code, in contrast to the GNU people trying to stop their work being absorbed into the old big iron.

and they won.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Who won?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

the "take our work and pay us nothing, please" crowd.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I think that if your license is MIT then you don't really understand why free software exist.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 9 hours ago

i tend to use mit for things i see little value in, and something stronger for things i think may be useful.

but i don't get to publish much code.

[–] blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud 19 points 18 hours 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.