These Skylines streams have gotten a warm reception over the past weeks — so tonight is our first in a new WEEKLY series of city-building every Thursday!
🎉 Congrats to @gabek and @owncast for launching version version 0.10 this week!
It's a major release with a COMPLETE front-end rewrite 😲, and has been much anticipated by Owncast's fediversal streaming community.
🧪 I'll be testing it with a livestream in about an hour (5/1 at 8pm eastern) at 🎥 @streaming doing some research on fundraising for open source software projects and vibing to some music.
Come hang out, bring a project or snack, and vibe to some 🎶music🎶 with me!
#RadioFreeHamish is back on the air with Theme Thursday once again! Tonight's theme is "Days, Dates, Times, Years etc."
Can you think of a track related to the theme - let me know in the live chat on stream and I will try to play it for you.
Not once did I say that running Owncast is expensive. The server software itself isn’t costly to run, and doesn’t require much in the way of hardware specs.
I said that video is expensive. Which it typically is, especially compared to text, photos, audio, etc.
Now if @owncast knows of ways to save on the cost of video, I’m sure everyone would like to learn how. Because it’s not just me who’s concerned about the cost of video. It’s a whole lot of people who would be running an Owncast server but haven’t yet.
So tell me how to do it. If I’m streaming all my video games, I’d rather use #Owncast than #Twitch.
Live-streaming can be expensive & easily skyrocket the cost of hosting (depending on the video quality). I currently rely on #Vimeo & #Youtube as I can afford those, but high quality live streaming is sadly beyond my budget.
@ernie@owncast This right here. This is an opportunity to learn about #Owncast. And when I learn, so does everyone who's following along to this conversation.
I'm tempted to start using #Owncast because I want a federated #Twitch replacement. What keeps me from doing it is the sheer cost of video.
Because screenshots really don't do justice for a game like Extreme-G 2. It really is awful, and only seeing a video can make you appreciate how herky-jerky is.
On another note, I own 7,000 video games. I'd love to do these games justice by archiving video just so the rest of the world can see them in action. They really do deserve to be remembered.