• Gork@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Morality policing is dumb. If she wants to stream through her chest or butt, more power to her.

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      7 months ago

      It’s the advertisement companies that are far behind the times. They ruin everything they touch because they are so sensitive to Karen types.

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        7 months ago

        Doesn’t Twitch make most of its money through donations, and the insanely high cut Twitch takes from them?

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          They still need to use payment processors, right? Those payment processors wouldn’t allow adult contents. Those that do, charge significantly more for each transaction.

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          7 months ago

          We don’t know because Twitch is owned by Amazon and they don’t give out the financial info of that subsidiary. It could well be that Amazon is subsidizing Twitch as a strategic move.

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          Best guess is subs and bits make the most:

          Market research company Nielsen estimates that Twitch brought in revenue from all sources of about $2 billion in 2020.6

          The parent company reportedly has set a target of $1 billion a year in advertising alone from Twitch. Most guesstimates suggest that it has not yet reached that level.

          If that’s accurate, ads make up less than half, with the rest being merch, subs, and bits. I’m guessing subs and bits are the biggest piece of the pie (if we combine them), followed by ads.

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            7 months ago

            Wait you can buy bits? I thought they were earnt by watchtime and clicking on a little button next to chat.

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              7 months ago

              you are thinking of points, partners have channel points(that they can name whatever) that you earn as you watch them. those can be used for channel redemption. Bits are paid for currency that lets you do different things per streamer depending on what they have setup.

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      7 months ago

      We need people to ditch these corporate shit hole platforms. All of the technology is becoming come all the ties and so anyone can just whip one of these up on their computer and serve it to the world, the only really bureaucratic restrictions exist preventing this

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        7 months ago

        Streaming video to millions of people isn’t just something anyone could whip up and run. It requires an ungodly amount of infrastructure and the only reason twitch and YouTube can keep going is because Amazon and Google own millions of servers world wide

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          7 months ago

          you use bittorrent. peertube can do this already and while I’m unsure about what already existing tech you can use for streaming it can’t be that complicated

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            7 months ago

            You don’t know half of it. It’s incredibly costly, takes up a shitload of infrastructure and cannot be improvised by just trying to “torrent it”