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.
Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.
Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option
I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas!
Laughs in adblocker
Twitch keeps dodging ublock origin
Adblock is more than ublock
What have you found that works on twitch?
personally i’ve had few issues with Twitch Alternative Viewer
Streamlink
Solution: stop using Twitch.
The best life hacks are always in the comments
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.
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.
I feel like people are eager to change and make new habits but won’t go places where there is no content.
It’s the streamers and youtubers who need to move, but they won’t because of of the other platforms don’t have similar monetization
Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to “it’s not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle”. I get that if everyone switched we’d be better off but we’re just not there yet.
Capital will claw you in and hold you down under the threat of bankruptcy.
You don’t need to watch this or that streamer to live. You can ditch them and do something else. The streamer goes where the money is. If they start seeing people don’t use twitch anymore, they will switch to whatever platform the audience wants. But alas, the audience seems to enjoy ads this way so…
This is self inflicted pain and people enjoy it.
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
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.
We’re getting closer and closer to this:
rofl why does the patent have the viewer stand up and cheer it
to show those people with difficulties standing who the real bosses are
This voice feature is ableist against… paraplegics!
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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Drink verification can.
That’s a full boycott from me, dawg.
Not even once. I’m good watching recycled twitch clips wherever they crop up. Fuck your business model with a pitchfork.
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 guess I’ll continue never using twitch.
