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Shameless plug, if anyone here streams check out https://owncast.online/, it’s a self-hosted fediverse twitch alternative that I’ve really enjoyed, and the community is really nice. (No ads, too) If you feel comfortable setting up a docker container you can stream on the fediverse, and people on mastodon/other services can sub to you. (and if you want to see what it’s like, you can see my instance here: https://owncast.scrubbles.tech/ )
Doesn’t this take up quite a lot of bandwidth if you have a lot of viewers?
This was an interesting question, so I took a quick dive in the docs, it seems it has an S3 integration to help with it, and some comments on the various supported services
More info here: https://owncast.online/docs/storage/
Still, depending on the chosen provider and the amount of viewers, it could be quite costly
It’s free after you pay for it.
It’s a one-time fee that you pay monthly. One-time in that you pay one time a month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrccTMwoLv8&pp=ygUUUG9ydGxhbmRpYSBidXkgcGhvbmU%3D
This is Kumail Nanjiani’s best work.
The really interesting question is, are they removing revenue from channels? Are you really supporting them by going adfree? Do the users who pay this still count as viewers of ads even though they don’t see them?
Nitro users count towards ad views and show as regular users… basically to count as a viewer you have to have the video running, doesn’t matter if the player or tab is muted.
That’s interesting! So the more of those subscriptions twitch sells, the more they devaluate themselves towards the advertisers?
Well they get the money directly from the user. In most cases this is more profitable.
For sure! Untill no more advertisers feel its worth to advertise.
Right, but that would be fine because they’d have so much money from subscriptions at that point…
