Julian is an awesome guy! I just spoke with him on the latest episode of Fireside Fedi if anyone is interested: https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/q3z3C6JrpitEUxwFmwiTUo

Thank YOu!

Talking with Ben Pate today at 1500 Eastern. Robert is tomorrow at 1100

Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he’s written extensively on social media. I’ve unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.

https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ if folks wanna watch live and ask questions.

https://video.firesidefedi.live/ if you wanna watch the show afterwards.

I have a friend that also brought up discoverability as an issue, so she stayed on Twitch. Twitch also has a massive discoverability problem and they have numerous tools, but there’s so much noise it’s impossible to rise above it.

With Owncast discoverability is organic atm. It’s a tiny, but growing pond. Like anything else anymore, if you want to be discovered you have to do the leg work.

But it’s definitely NOT Twitch and you won’t get famous or make tons of money.

What you can do though is control your platform, stream what you want, etc.

I personally LOVE Owncast. It’s how I’ve met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net/ . I’ve even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.

I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX

I’ve spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can’t work. With THOUSANDS of people you’d probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there’s S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they’ll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.

I’m very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.

https://directory.owncast.online/

I would be using it, but just bought new hardware that even on experimental I couldn’t get running. But I will run it in the future when debian supports the gpu.

Asking the tough questions.