I know of Kick, Trevor, DLive and apparently Bigo also exists. There is probably more. Are any of those or else viable?

*Viable as in have an userbase and aren’t just being re-streamed to by Twitch, YouTube and Facebook streamers.

(I am not comfortable with Amazon, Meta or Google having my data and I like to interact with streamers. My experience on other platforms is they restream and usually don’t even notice people from other platforms plus frequently my messages are shown inbedded into the stream so they’re visible on the big platforms as well.)

I’ll appreciate any polite information exchange.

Also, afaik DLive is connected to crypto and that’s something which doesn’t interest me.

  • missingno@fedia.io
    2·
    2 months ago

    Viable? No. It’s pretty much impossible for any new service to compete with the big juggernauts. Video streaming takes a ton of bandwidth so it’s one of the most expensive kinds of services to run, and it’s pretty much impossible to convince anyone to switch over from the established platforms. Streamers won’t move because viewers aren’t there, and viewers won’t move because streamers aren’t there.

    Every now and then a new competitor pops up because some venture capitalist thought they’d be special enough to succeed where everyone else failed, and promptly dies. No one stands a chance of taking on Google or Amazon.

    People will point out that PeerTube exists on the Fediverse, but all that can really be said about PeerTube is that it is a thing that exists. If it’s viability you want, PeerTube isn’t there and I don’t think it ever will be.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Since you‘re on the fediverse already, consider peertube. It still needs work in discoverability but from a data ownership perspective its pretty top notch.

    • sunscream@lemmy.vgOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I seek a big userbase, not fedi-like alternative. I want to freely find nerds to nerd with.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, thats what we call a trade off. The large userbases are on the bad platforms and the good platforms have small userbases.

        Until people start at least mirror their stuff on (eg) peertube, we wont see increase in userbase.

        For that reason, if I planned to interact with a large audience, I would go to twitch, no two ways about it, but mirror on peertube so it gets a chance to grow.

        There is no free lunch. We have to put in work if we want to see positive change.

        • Tellore@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          Interesting thing to try to make something else more popular is to start on twitch, mirror somewhere else, than declare you move there and mirror TO twitch from there. So that you don’t lose twitch audience but also make some of them want to visit the other site because the main stream is there.