@SrRochardBunson the bandwidth costs to serve live video to thousands of viewers for hours everyday are crazy.
i think owncast is a great project, and nice to serve video to a small number of viewers every now and then. but sadly is not a solution for professional streamers who want to move away from big tech.
@jenoki@SrRochardBunson Professionals are the most profitable and have the most to gain, if they could get equal discoverability. The ad revenue arrangements would be far better in their favor without the middlemen.
@SrRochardBunson@venya@luka@teklynk what have you found is a good way to discover new owncast streams? The only way I have found any is with the #streaming tag here but I feel like there has to be more out there.
My friends posting sbout it and sending links. Obviously that's not scaleable or sustainable. 😅
My pie in the sky idea would be a site with retro tv frames pulling from the different sites. Searchable links to streams and a way to show which ones are live, but I'm not techie enough to do that.
Everyone partaking has a little widget on their website with a next and previous button, taking the user to someone else's website in the same webring.
Optionally there can be a directory page and/or a random site button.
It's just a nice way to find websites of likeminded people...
As far as I'm aware there was talk to open this up to other indie musicians' websites (correct me if I'm wrong @keefmarshall )
The instructions are specifically for a page that uses Markdown, but it would be easy to the same using HTML - you would need to be able to use one or the other on your website though.
But, as the FAQ on the site says, if someone has a non Faircamp site that can display the prev/next links in a similar way, there's no technical reason why we couldn't add it to the ring.
To clarify some of the comments above: you need to have your site added to the ring as well as add the links, just adding the links isn't enough.
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