Owncast is awesome! I just played around a little with it and it just works! You genuinely can go in under a minute from not having ever heard of it to streaming over your own server! See https://owncast.online/quickstart/installer/ for how.
We really need more software that just works and is beautiful and user-(i.e. human)-respecting!
Lord. I know #AI garbage has poisoned the web but I hadnt fully appreciated the scale until I, a newbie, tried to find a simple beginner tutorial for writing a chat bot for some things I’d like to do with the #owncast server.
Nothing but ChatGPT gibberish. Eventually gave up.
Imagine being a hosting service and coming to the Fedi to promote your services by hosting an #owncast and it tops out at 4 users and never stops buffering. 🤣
Oh and ALSO your chat is a DISCORD chat instead of the default Owncast chat. 🤣
One thing I do miss from deleting my #Twitch account is the #Music section. There are some really talented people there streaming music. Are there any people out there streaming music via #Owncast?
#PeerTube - a certain international #Wikimedia organisation is looking for a PeerTube to do live #streaming. Any proposal?
At the moment I'm inclined to propose https://video.linux.it that is hosted by the Italian #GARR non-profit consortium, and also because we have sysadmins there for whatever question/issue, and #FLOSS activists.
Thanks for any suggested PeerTube for this context
Edited: not limited to PeerTube indeed. Anything FLOSS and user friendly would be lovely.
@boz
Peertube is very lovely to host fedi video and it CAN livestream but #Owncast is built for the job.
App is under 10mb, single user, activitypub, live chat is a base part of the app. Follower live notifications.
I do not understand the Owncast iOS app. It shows the live streams in the Owncast directory, and once you click on it, the live stream will play at the top, and you will see some channel info below, but there’s no access to the chat unless you actually go to that website.
Also, the notifications have not been working for me. So at this point, I’m wondering what the point of the app is? What does it do that going to the website on my phones browser doesn’t do? #Owncast
Join the other patrons at https://live.gamerstavern.online and get ready for some stealth (cough) fun action with Ratto and Alex, playing Vampire the Masquerade: Justice!
Follow @Innkeeper for future live streams' notifications!
My #faircamp , #owncast setup: A fanless industrial PC (Advantech ARK-2250) which also heats up (a small fraction) of this year's chilli and aubergine seedlings.
So every time I stream or you listen and download on faircamp the seedlings get a little bit of dissipated energy!