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Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mint@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I didn't know whether to put this in here or tech, sorry lol.

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[+] ArtVandelay@beehaw.org 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

https://owncast.online/ or !peertube@lemmy.ml does this ;) Peertube even has users help with bandwidth for livestreams.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would think a lot of full-time content creators would be pissed by not having ads.

One I follow recently disabled viewing twitch VODs (stream recordings) without a subscription. The reason is that even though twitch has ads on streams, it doesnt on VODs. They instead record the streams manually and upload them to youtube.

And if you know them, you cant say they are greedy (at least about this one, I dont know generally). They hold non-english streams with sub 500 viewers, so of course they reach a smaller audience, and they are doing it full time, in a country that was hit very hard in inflation, and which also killed the tax form which was the go-to solution for anyone self-employed, resulting in their income taxes multiplying by ~3-4 times, and by looking at the numbers, they still dont have a dream paycheck, or anywhere near to it. If you watch the streams (and know the language, haha), you know they are not there to get rich, but to build a community, which they involve a lot in behind-the-scenes and life related things.

I have no idea what are the circumstances with twitch streamers in other countries with a better economy, but I can see that for instance this one needs that money if they want to continue.

[–] ado@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Huh, very interesting... I'm kinda shocked these exist. And at least owncast seems to load fairly quickly.

[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Self-hosting video sounds awesome, but it seems challenging if it were ever going to scale. Mastodon and Lemmy instances are already struggling hosting a social media platform. Streaming video sounds 1000x more difficult.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

I think its fine here too, twitch for the most part is a game streaming platform.

First I've read about this from a content creator I follow through Nitter. They were immediately talking with their content creator peers that this change kills almost all sponsor deals. The one I am following is doing test-streams to youtube, and they were half-joking about speeding up tests :D

But to get back to topic, this one has it in burned in banner form, but I think it is fine because they do it in a non-obtrusive way. I have twitch ads blocked for privacy reasons, so at least this is a way - however small it is - in which I can support them, with helping them to such deals by slightly increasing the view count.

[–] darknavi@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

Now your turn Reddit.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 2 years ago

They must have seen XQC get bought out by a competitor and realized that was likely going to keep happening if they didn't let the creators have freedom.

Now we see if they lost community trust and walked back too late not to keep bleeding from this.