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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[–] randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Take a look at this one : https://owncast.online/

[–] jason@social.mrnf.me 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?

[–] randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml 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!

[–] TheYang@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To dicover streams from owncast Owncast Directory

I wonder how much capability for a community-server there is though.
like a few content creators coming together to pay for it, because right now it seems like it's exclusively self hosted from the streamer

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BrikoX@vlemmy.net 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.

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