Host your own OwnCast (https://owncast.online/). It uses ActivityPub and is part of the Fediverse.
Here’s mine: https://live.fraxoweb.com/
this looks very interesting, I feel like I should check this out as sn occasional streamer with no fanbase
Yeah, I love OwnCast, it’s actually so much simpler than Twitch, and it has no ads.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-visibility/
same for chrome based browsers. an API that should never have existed in the first place.
I must be lucky, I’ve not seen any ads on twitch.
Also, I don’t use twitch.
Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option
Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.
Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.
But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn’t have enough yet.
Blame the browsers for creating the APIs.
You mean Google.
No, I mean they all decide to adopt this shit.
These tools can be used for good applications though. Why punish good developers when bad actors are the problem?
There is no valid need for this API.
This API can be used to suggest users take breaks if they’ve been using a site for a long time.
The exact same API exists in desktop environments; it’s just part of the progressive OS-ification of the web.
yah but the problem is that other streaming platforms exist, and a fair few streamers multi stream so…
jeff might not have thought this through.
What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it’s twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I’m starting to think we have the internet we deserve.
So many platforms are like this. I think it’s because content creators their business tied into these systems.
If the viewers dry up they’ll stop being paid and leave.
It’s on every user to dump the platform.
Don’t underestimate the power of inertia.
I only use it for in-game drops once in a blue moon and even then it’s on 160p with no sound with two ad blockers on, minimized in the background. So even if they somehow serve me ads I won’t see them lmao
Twitch channel point miner.
I have it running as a docker container and it just collect drops and points for me.
Honestly. The only reason I even have that was so I had points to gamble with during Eve Online’s alliance tournament. I don’t watch anything else on twitch.
I appreciate you mentioning this.
The point miner specifically was of little use to me, but it had never occurred to me that an application could authenticate and then just pretend to watch things. This lead me to the twitch drop miner, which seems to be exactly what I’m looking for.
I have an extension like that yeah
no way, people will just leave twitch for another streaming platform, kick and youtube exist and many stream on there and if your lucky, your favs never took an exclusivity contract and already multi stream.
Solution: stop using Twitch.
The best life hacks are always in the comments
We’re getting closer and closer to this:
Holy fuck it’s real
Drink verification can.
That’s gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)
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I guess I’ll continue never using twitch.
I too shall continue my boycott that begin in 1981
Basically stopped watching twitch bwcause of the stupid fucking unskippable ads… and I’m glad i did, I’m never going back, fuck them and their bs ads. Much more free time :)
I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.
In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that’s just capitalism. That’s why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.
