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.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 weeks 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.vg 2 weeks ago
I seek a big userbase, not fedi-like alternative. I want to freely find nerds to nerd with.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 weeks 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.