In the wake of Twitch’s seemingly unattainable Partner Plus program, jaded streamers are claiming they’ll move to the streaming rival Kick.
I don’t think the #fediverse can solve this, but I can’t understand why ppl keep expecting better from the same system. Corporate silos are never going to be a healthy, sustainable way to build anything on top of. They have the power and as soon as they can, they’ll use it to exploit their “partners”/content producers and users.
Owncast and Peertube can’t reproduce what you’d get on one of the silos right now, but they’re the best we have. And they can’t exploit you because you control them (unless you’re on an instance you don’t run but even that is better because you have a choice of instances)
I checked out how much it would cost to for example make live streaming platform using AWS on the backend. This is an example they give on their cost/pricing page:
Approximately 10,000 viewers for a one-hour live event using a high definition (HD)-1080p encoding profile is approximately $12.50 for live encoding and packaging + $1531.49 for 18,017GB distribution = $1,543.99 for the one-hour event.
AWS is known to be VERY expensive, you can probably save quite a bit with a smaller setup, but I don’t think a longer 5+ hour stream would be cheap if done outside of these platforms.
I’dd love to hear if anyone has any real life experience with hosting large live streams like this on the cheap.
you’re right and that’s prolly the biggest limiting factor. I’d love to see like streaming co-ops where an organization maintains the infrastructure using OwnCast or something and individuals can join to use the server. The org would be more accountable to its members due to its smaller size and streamers would have more control over their channel and content.
Streamers want that corporate money. They know what they’re getting into. They know their end game is signing a lucrative sponsorship contract once they get big enough.
