alessandroTwitch forces users to watch ads they can't click away from
superduperpirateWell, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option
tostiman
GuiltyFrostWhat 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.
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.
Cevilia (they/she/…)Don’t underestimate the power of inertia.
cosmicrookieI 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
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.
chickenIt’s possible for them to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously, it’s common for streamers to do twitch and youtube at the same time. If the tools make it easy enough they might do it despite no potential to make money right away.
Makes it harder for community interaction given split chats though. And chatting with other random people in chats is like 60% of why I watch streams at all, so breaking that ruins the experience imo. Its like hanging out with a friend whose also just on a phone call the whole time.
Pretty sure twitch has deals with streamers that restricts how they can stream. I think SimpleFlips had a video explaining why he stopped streaming on YouTube, he didn’t realize the twitch partner contract required him to stream exclusively on twitch at the time. I’ve also heard some things about how you can stream simultaneously, but twitch doesn’t allow you merging chats from different platforms, so if you want to show chat in the stream itself, each platform might need a separate box.
hoshikarakitaridiaYeah 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.
real_squidsI 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
Twitch channel point miner.
I have it running as a docker container and it just collect drops and points for me.
Honestly. The only reason I even have that was so I had points to gamble with during Eve Online’s alliance tournament. I don’t watch anything else on twitch.
I have an extension like that yeah
KairuByte
krimsonYeah 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.
chemical_cutthroatThere has to be a way to write a plug in to fool sites into thinking you have volume on and the tab in focus.
Sounds like something browsers should have an option to prevent. Or just don’t use twitch in the first place.
AnUnusualRelicBrowsers manage this just fine: just middle click on the tab.
Rhoeri
DeckPackerI think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.
In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that’s just capitalism. That’s why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.
This is Black Mirror, not Idiocracy. If you can only relate to reality through fiction, at least use the appropriate ones.
Calm down.
Get shit right.
I already saw this Black Mirror episode
MagnificentSteiner
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WashedupcynicOMG this is hysterical
I guess I’ll continue never using twitch.
I too shall continue my boycott that begin in 1981
Drink verification can.
Does watching Twitch through GrayJay get around this?
We’re getting closer and closer to this:
🔍🦘🛎I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.
I stopped because morons can’t stay off their phones for 5 bloody minutes.