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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've been looking for an open source alternative to Twitch and finally found one...only for it to be shut down in a couple days. I'll probably end up going to Twitch or something but damn, I thought I struck gold with this, only to be 3 years too late. I wish they would've gotten a much bigger platform and more supporters.

Edit: I think I will end up going with Kick.com in spite of the gambling stuff. I really hope people will donate to Gilmesh.tv so they're more incentived to get things up and running again.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To dicover streams from owncast Owncast Directory

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@randomguy2323 @pineapplelover interesting project. Could I set my son up with his own “Twitch” like channel with this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes you can , I haven't tried myself but it seems that it works. Also if you like it don't forget to donate to support the project!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh come on, I wish I found this platform so much sooner too...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Video hosting/bandwidth is just too expensive to run long term. All big platforms are either barely making any profit after years operating or are still running into a negative. But since they have multi-billion corporations behind them they can affort it and get others benefits from having a big userbase to exploit.