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.
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.
Maybe they saw that Twitter didnt feel any change, and that Reddit is still confident after the backlash, and thought this is the time.. but then they realized they arent as brave as their creators are angry already. I guess you can play with people's hobbies, but not with their livelihood
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.
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