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Owncast is a free and open source live video and chat server for your events. Stream your entertainment, education, tv station, performances, games, communities, conferences, or whatever you have to share with an audience without big tech.

Note: Microblogging services aren't a great place to provide support. Please file support requests at our issue tracker so they don't get overlooked! https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues

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owncast, to random
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Do you use Owncast but don't enable Fediverse functionality? I'd love to hear from you to learn your use case. I'd love to see more Owncast instances on the Fediverse, and I want to learn why people don't. Maybe asking people on the Fediverse is preaching to the choir, but it's all I've got!

Please chime in! https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/3088

owncast,
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@0x1b Any live video streaming needs. It's just server software, so it doesn't dictate what it's used for. If you need to run a live video stream, Owncast might be useful to you. https://videos.owncast.online/v/xaJ3xNn9Y6pWTdB25m9ai3

owncast,
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@draqlo Using it as an equivalent to Twitch is probably the most difficult use case, because you're 100% responsible for building your own audience. People are used to getting viewers funneled to them, and with Owncast you don't have that. So Owncast works well when you have a streaming need where you have a built-in audience.

owncast,
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@InsaneAwesomeTony https://owncast.online/quickstart/ is the best place to walk you through getting running.

blake, to fediverse

Even though the shift is small, it's big enough. It's incredible watching the Fediverse grow; first with the Birdsite flocking to #Mastodon, and now with #Lemmy and #Kbin growing in popularity (I only recently learned about Kbin)... this type of growth is enough to kickstart more people coming over here.

I'm looking forward to #Tumblr maybe joining sometime soon (oh, the memes you can see!), maybe some prominent Twitch people will try out #Owncast, maybe I can get some of my family over here...

owncast,
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@AudraTran @blake I wouldn't call it a replacement for Twitch. It's a live streaming server you can use for whatever your needs are. Some people use it for Twitch-style streams.

I hear comments like yours a lot. The problem is I don't know how to convert words like "polish", "modern", "nice", or "proper" into actionable things. What is nice? What is proper? What is modern?
Maybe you can help!

https://owncast.online/designer-wanted/

owncast,
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@AudraTran @blake Would love any feedback you can provide so Owncast can improve!

owncast, to random
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When you operate your own live stream your sponsor's logo can be as big as you want and you can advertise anything you like. Your server, your content, your rules.

owncast,
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@jasonnab @rhsjjack That's correct, each stream is a self-contained server that is independently operated. As for moderation, if you're talking about on the Fediverse, you wouldn't follow a stream that you don't approve of and you could of course block them on your microblogging service of choice, just like any other Fediverse identity. If you're talking about Owncast chat moderation there's functionality to support that.

bass, to fediverse
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I am considering bringing my community over to via Linode. Not very tech savvy.

How much of a learning curve am I facing? Any additional snags I'll be facing that I wouldn't encounter while streaming to someone else's platform?

owncast,
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@bass The 1-click install with Linode is a great way to get up and running!

DiWoWo, to fediverse German

Is there any app, preferably not from Google Play that allows direct from the mobile phone to ?

owncast,
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@DiWoWo Larix Broadcaster has been used in the past and seems to work pretty well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wmspanel.larix_broadcaster

owncast,
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@DiWoWo Sorry, I misread. I thought you originally asked for an app on the Google Play store. I'm afraid I'm not of much help with specifics of what apps are on what stores and what they contain. I hope you find something, though!

hamishtpb, to fediverse

Is back for a new week with Music Request Monday. Come join us and just ask in the chat if there is a tune you would like to hear.

https://watch.thepolarbear.co.uk

owncast,
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@hamishtpb Looks like it's a small display bug. If you refresh the page you'll see the actual status of that toggle. Thanks!

majorlinux, to random
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Hey @owncast, is there a way to dock chat to OBS?

owncast,
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@majorlinux Hopefully this should point you in the right direction: https://owncast.online/docs/embed/#embedding-read-only-chat

captaincalliope, to random

🎉 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!

owncast,
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@DopeGhoti @captaincalliope Each microblogging platform has their own features of what, and how, they render content inline. Mastodon, however, will render an Owncast stream in the timeline if you share the URL. For example: https://lyre.live/

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediverse

This response from @owncast is befuddling.

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.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/owncast/statuses/110452997356582794

owncast,
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@atomicpoet I'm feeling like I must have offended you in some way in the past. If that's the case I apologize. I don't know why you have such feelings to go on the offensive.

If you're asking in good faith, it's exactly as expensive as you want it to be for your use case. I don't know what your requirements are or your hosting options are, so I can't tell you what it would cost. It's like asking the price to run Nginx. It depends what you're doing with it.

https://owncast.online/docs/resources-requirements/

ill_logic, to random
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@owncast Curious if you plan to have an API and/or application in FDroid? I don't have a Twitch or Kick account or app, but I bet it would be a cool UX as a viewer to be able to have an account, follow streamers (or just bookmark them locally without an account), and pull out your phone to see "who's on".

owncast,
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@ill_logic Building a new Android application would be a huge undertaking. Owncast is a very, very small project. Hopefully all that functionality are things you can already do from the web without a dedicated app.

majorlinux, to fediverse
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owncast,
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@majorlinux Where can somebody sign up for hosting? I'd like to share that as an option for Owncast.

schenklklopfer, to fediverse German
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Ich hasse ja Messenger bzw. Chats, die aus text dann fettgedrucktes oder kursives machen...

Looking at you und !

owncast,
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@schenklklopfer Single asterisks should be italic, and double should be bold according to the Markdown spec. https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet

owncast,
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@schenklklopfer I'm afraid you may have lost that battle, as Markdown is a standard way of working with plain text. Sorry about that!

owncast, to fediverse
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I’m hearing murmurs of YouTube blocking browsers that support ad blockers.

You know where you don’t have to worry about such things? Host your videos on a instance and use for your live video streaming needs.

But of course you already knew that.

owncast,
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@ferricoxide Not sure, you'll need to ask the people! There's a basic one for Owncast, however. https://channelstore.roku.com/details/7419f1032ebbfe1c7dcc6e2f3f5c8767/owncast

owncast,
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@Lulukaros @smashmaster Stream any video you like! https://videos.owncast.online/v/xaJ3xNn9Y6pWTdB25m9ai3

owncast,
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@Lulukaros @smashmaster It's your server. You stream whatever you want and you take responsibility for what you put out into the world.

owncast,
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@futureisfoss @tio Very cool!

owncast,
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@Norobiik Sure! If you're looking to get up and running with Owncast there's a handful of different options! https://owncast.online/quickstart

ke7zum, to fediverse

Well we've got a problem with . I cannot adjust the slider to 30fps using . woops?

owncast,
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@queenslight For whatever reason I'm unable to respond directly to ke7zum from fosstodon.org. But if she sees this, I tested the slider she had concerns with in the upcoming release of Owncast and it looks to be functioning as expected. Please do test it when the release comes out and file any bugs that are run into!

fediversereport, to fediverse
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Introducing Fediverse 201, a new series in which I take a deeper dive in all the other cool products and services on the fediverse that go beyond microblogging, and talk to the creators about their product.

In this first edition: Owncast!

is a free and open source live video streaming server, that can also connect to the rest of the in a variety of ways.

Read more at https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-201-owncast/

owncast,
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@darnell @fediversereport @gabek It doesn't need to be costly or complex. One of Owncast's primary goals is to demystify running your own live streams. The centralized services want you to think they're they only options, and unfortunately most people believe them.

owncast, to random
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Music going down at https://stream.princesspea.live/ if you'd like a chill soundtrack to your Saturday!

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