heād have to spend billions to get enough infrastructure for his streaming service to be able to compete with YouTube and Twitch
I was not at all suggesting that he enter the business of livestreamingā¦
Because people go where the content is, so a majority of content creators would have to start using it, rather than just himself.
āWhere the content isā is owned by one of the richest tech billionaires in the world. One who is responsible for the destruction of more small businesses than anyone on the planet. One who bribed the President on several occasions, including with the ballroom, and with a $28M check. And Iām sure many other avenues.
As long as we continue going āwhere the content isā and refusing to go anywhere else, thatās where it will remain in perpetuity. Someone has to have the influence and the courage to make the content be somewhere else.
Until that, itās like Epic Games Store. They keep giving away free games and STILL nobody wants to go there because all their games are already on Steam.
Thatās not why at all. Thatās because their platform sucks ass.
I was not at all suggesting that he enter the business of livestreamingā¦
See, the thing is, if whatever alternative platform he uses (which you proposed could be his own website) canāt facilitate a bunch of other creators moving over, then his effort is useless against the whole issue of Twitch, and only serves to make fewer people watch him. And to be fair, heās not just streaming it on Twitch, heās also doing it on YouTube, TikTok and several other shitty corporate platforms, because thatās where people are. At least you get a choice of which one to use, even if they all suck.
People donāt want to have to use 10 different platforms to follow the stuff theyāre interested in. They want their one platform to show most of the content, and the content thatās not there might as well be ignored. Now if you had Mamdani, and several other people that some particular viewer cares about, all on one alternative platform, that would be enough for that person to consider watching content on two or three platforms, Iām sure. But nobodyās going to type an URL into their browser just for one politician in 2026. Thatās how fucked we are as a society.
As long as we continue going āwhere the content isā and refusing to go anywhere else, thatās where it will remain in perpetuity. Someone has to have the influence and the courage to make the content be somewhere else.
I fully agree, but it doesnāt help unless thereās enough content āsomewhere elseā and āsomewhere elseā isnāt ādifferent service for every streamer and politicianā. The reason something like Nebula works is that a whole lot of content creators got together. And they pretty much all still upload to YouTube too, because they need the money - they still get the majority of their views from there, despite offering exclusive content and early access on Nebula. Now Nebula is paid so it has a higher barrier to entry for viewers, but itās ad free and slop free.
You and I might go visit Mamdaniās website if he decides to stream on there, but millions of others will not, and he needs to reach them too. Personally, Iām not even the audience he needs to reach. I donāt live in the US, let alone NYC.
Personally I think he should also stream it here, but not get rid of the other alternatives just yet. And advertise that more prominently than Twitch or YouTube. Clearly heās already doing multistreaming, it would be great if he could add a non-corporate platform as an alternative. He could also read comments from all platforms rather than just Twitch because thereās technology for that too, though it depends on what his solution is (not like a streaming software solution is super hard to replace though).
Thatās not why at all. Thatās because their platform sucks ass.
I acknowledged that, but there are tons of gamers who outright refuse to entertain the idea of using it even if it was good.
GOG doesnāt suck at all, and sees much smaller sales numbers than Steam for games that are listed on both. I know Iām personally guilty of buying CP2077 on Steam rather than GOG (despite the fact that I could still use Proton for the GOG version).
if whatever alternative platform he uses (which you proposed could be his own website) canāt facilitate a bunch of other creators moving over, then his effort is useless against the whole issue of Twitch
ā¦no? It isnāt. He doesnāt have to support anyone else in order to not support Twitch.
Other than that, I would recommend checking out the Owncast directory to see how a federated streaming network can work. Or even look at the current state of podcasts and just apply that logic to streaming.
People donāt want to have to use 10 different platforms to follow the stuff theyāre interested in. They want their one platform to show most of the content
The only reason that doesnāt already exist is because Big Tech doesnāt want it to. They could all turn on Federation and make that a reality tomorrow. Again, I refer you to The Owncast directory to see what that future could look like.
I fully agree, but it doesnāt help unless thereās enough content āsomewhere elseā
Once again, chicken and egg. There will never be content somewhere else until someone puts it there.
GOG doesnāt suck at all, and sees much smaller sales numbers than Steam
Thatās because they only have DRM-free content, which means they have ~1\1000th of Steamās library, if that.
Personally I donāt buy from them because they donāt support Linux/Proton, even though they totally could. So I have to choose between free games or a free OS.
ā¦no? It isnāt. He doesnāt have to support anyone else in order to not support Twitch.
Him alone supporting or not supporting Twitch means absolutely nothing for Twitch, but quite a bit for his viewership. Just moving one creator off the biggest platform accomplishes nothing.
The only reason that doesnāt already exist is because Big Tech doesnāt want it to
And I donāt see a universe where Big Tech is going to change itsā tune either unfortunately.
Or even look at the current state of podcasts and just apply that logic to streaming.
Basically every podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, some of the major ones also on YouTube. Howās that different from streaming?
Once again, chicken and egg. There will never be content somewhere else until someone puts it there.
And Iām saying thereās no point unless itās a coordinated effort. A single creator being unavailable on Twitch changes nothing, except that single streamerās visibility. It would have to be a ton of people streaming outside of the mainstream platforms for people to forget about Twitch.
Thatās because they only have DRM-free content, which means they have ~1\1000th of Steamās library, if that.
Aye, but even games they DO have, they sell less than Steam, despite offering a technically superior product (DRM-free).
Personally I donāt buy from them because they donāt support Linux/Proton
Their website runs fine on Firefox on Linux and you can use any number of utilities to run games with Proton and manage prefixes, such as Bottles, umu, etc. Heroic even provides a unifying launcher for GOG and a few other windows-only stores. Are you saying the convenience of the more proprietary platform is keeping you from using the less proprietary one? You can see how itās the same for 99% of humanity and corporate streaming services, right? The competing service needs to win on multiple points to overcome the convenience and familiarity of the existing.
Just moving one creator off the biggest platform accomplishes nothing.
Weāve already discussed several times precisely how it does. If you donāt agree, thatās fine, but you can stop repeating the same nonsense over and over.
And I donāt see a universe where Big Tech is going to change itsā tune either unfortunately.
Not as long as people like you continue to advocate against it.
Basically every podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, some of the major ones also on YouTube. Howās that different from streaming?
Because theyāre also available without them. And YouTube does not have podcasts.
And Iām saying thereās no point unless itās a coordinated effort. A single creator being unavailable on Twitch changes nothing, except that single streamerās visibility
Brother you canāt just start at 5 million. Everything starts at one. Fortunately there are already hundreds, but none of them as influential as the mayor of NYC.
Their website runs fine on Firefox
I donāt care about their website. I want a client where I click a button and the game launches.
Heroic even provides a unifying launcher for GOG
It only works like 10% of the time. While Steam works 99%. Even when it works it doesnāt support a bunch of features that GOG desktop does.
Are you saying the convenience of the more proprietary platform is keeping you from using the less proprietary one?
No Iām saying one supports free operating systems and the other doesnāt.
Weāve already discussed several times precisely how it does. If you donāt agree, thatās fine, but you can stop repeating the same nonsense over and over.
Okay, tell me how many people are going to stop using Twitch because one single streamer streams elsewhere?
Not as long as people like you continue to advocate against it.
Yes, Iām the reason big tech wants to make more money, not because they like making money.
Because theyāre also available without them
Yes, and this stream is also available on platforms that are not Twitch. Similarly to how everyone still gets their podcasts off Spotify or Apple Podcasts because those have all the podcasts, everyone will still stream on Twitch if all their other content is still on Twitch too.
Brother you canāt just start at 5 million. Everything starts at one. Fortunately there are already hundreds, but none of them as influential as the mayor of NYC.
And which app or website can you go to to see all of those hundreds in one place?
I donāt care about their website. I want a client where I click a button and the game launches.
So you want convenience and itās worth more to you than your game being DRM-free. This is literally why every game dev still sells on Steam instead of delisting and going exclusively to GOG and itch. And itās why nobody who streams will take their stream off Twitch. Because of people like you, who want the convenience of going on Twitch and just clicking.
It only works like 10% of the time. While Steam works 99%. Even when it works it doesnāt support a bunch of features that GOG desktop does.
You donāt NEED any features other than ālaunch gameā. Some apps I can suggest for this: Konsole, alacritty, cosmic-term
No Iām saying one supports free operating systems and the other doesnāt.
But GOG supports free operating systems. The client is completely optional and it came several years after the website which supports every modern browser and OS. Not supporting free operating systems is an imaginary issue youāre making up to justify NOT LEAVING THE CONVENIENT CORPORATE PLATFORM THAT HAS ALL YOUR CONTENT IN ONE PLACE. If you really cared, you could also run the GOG client with Wine just like you run the games themselves.
tell me how many people are going to stop using Twitch because one single streamer streams elsewhere?
It doesnāt matter how many times you ask this leading question, Iām not repeating myself. Scroll up. This conversation is never going to make sense to you if youāre unable to understand the simple concept of a transition.
Iām the reason big tech wants to make more money, not because they like making money.
No, people like you are the reason they will continue making money. People who actively advocate against alternatives.
Yes, and this stream is also available on platforms that are not Twitch.
Only if they elect to multistream them to those platforms. Every other platform heās streaming it to is ALSO Big Tech. Podcasts are distributed via an open protocol called RSS and you can listen to them however you want, without any platforms involved at all.
Sure, YouTube doesnāt have podcasts.
Can you link me to the RSS feed for these āpodcastsā? No? Then theyāre not podcasts.
And which app or website can you go to to see all of those hundreds in one place?
Once again, already discussed above. If youāre just not going to read my responses, Iām going to stop writing them.
So you want convenience and itās worth more to you than your game being DRM-free.
It doesnāt matter if its DRM-free or not if it DOESNāT WORK.
Some apps I can suggest for this: Konsole, alacritty, cosmic-term
These are not āappsā, they are terminal emulators, and they obviously donāt solve the problem Iām describing.
But GOG supports free operating systems.
I would to hear how you describe this. They have zero Linux software whatsoever. And they donāt support Proton, even though they absolutely could.
If you really cared, you could also run the GOG client with Wine just like you run the games themselves.
No, people like you are the reason they will continue making money. People who actively advocate against alternatives.
Iām not advocating against alternatives, Iām saying thereās no point in dropping your visibility to zero if thereās not at least a semi-viable alternative to unify under.
Youāre just being obtuse on purpose.
Can you link me to the RSS feed for these āpodcastsā? No? Then theyāre not podcasts.
Nearly nobody uses RSS readers these days, people get their podcasts on other apps. The RSS feed isnāt a defining feature of podcasts anymore and many of the biggest podcasts no longer use it. Out of the ones I linked, the smallest (and by far the best) one, Cortex, still has an official RSS Feed. Now show me a podcast with significant followership that does not host their content on Spotify, Apple or YouTube and is only available via the RSS feed.
It doesnāt matter if its DRM-free or not if it DOESNāT WORK.
What doesnāt? Most GOG games seem to work just fine on Linux. Heroic Launcher? Idk, I donāt use it much, itās unnecessary for GOG anyway, itās only really necessary for Epic which doesnāt have download links on the website (I suppose you COULD also curl the games, but that requires more setup than most people would want to do, with cookies and everything)
These are not āappsā, they are terminal emulators, and they obviously donāt solve the problem Iām describing.
Open terminal, umu-run ~/games/some_game/some_game.exe. You can even use tab to auto complete parts of the path.
Done. Gameās running, faster than any big GUI launcher opens, whether it be Steam, or GOG Galaxy.
Thatās very obviously would simply not work.
Whyās that? Itās literally how I played Assassinās Creed, except it was uplay rather than GOG Galaxy.
Iām not advocating against alternatives, Iām saying thereās no point in dropping your visibility to zero
When you say that, thatās exactly what youāre doing. And it is not true, either.
Nearly nobody uses RSS readers these days, people get their podcasts on other apps.
What do you mean āother appsā? Every podcast app is an āRSS readerā. How do you think people listen to Spotify podcasts from the Apple podcasts app, and vise versa? You should really educate yourself more on how this works. You do not have to upload your podcast to Apple to be visible on Apple.
The RSS feed isnāt a defining feature of podcasts anymore
It is quite literally the only defining feature, other than containing audio/video media.
and many of the biggest podcasts no longer use it.
Then theyāre not podcasts.
Now show me a podcast with significant followership that does not host their content on Spotify, Apple or YouTube and is only available via the RSS feed.
Where theyāre hosted is not relevant. Every podcast with an RSS feed is available on Apple and Spotify apps. 100.0000% of them. Along with any and every other podcast app.
What doesnāt?
GOG games on Linux.
Open terminal, umu-run ~/games/some_game/some_game.exe. You can even use tab to auto complete parts of the path. Done.
LOL this is a gross oversimplification and you know it. Its not that simple and it WILL NOT WORK. Iām not playing this game anymore.
I was not at all suggesting that he enter the business of livestreamingā¦
āWhere the content isā is owned by one of the richest tech billionaires in the world. One who is responsible for the destruction of more small businesses than anyone on the planet. One who bribed the President on several occasions, including with the ballroom, and with a $28M check. And Iām sure many other avenues.
As long as we continue going āwhere the content isā and refusing to go anywhere else, thatās where it will remain in perpetuity. Someone has to have the influence and the courage to make the content be somewhere else.
Thatās not why at all. Thatās because their platform sucks ass.
See, the thing is, if whatever alternative platform he uses (which you proposed could be his own website) canāt facilitate a bunch of other creators moving over, then his effort is useless against the whole issue of Twitch, and only serves to make fewer people watch him. And to be fair, heās not just streaming it on Twitch, heās also doing it on YouTube, TikTok and several other shitty corporate platforms, because thatās where people are. At least you get a choice of which one to use, even if they all suck.
People donāt want to have to use 10 different platforms to follow the stuff theyāre interested in. They want their one platform to show most of the content, and the content thatās not there might as well be ignored. Now if you had Mamdani, and several other people that some particular viewer cares about, all on one alternative platform, that would be enough for that person to consider watching content on two or three platforms, Iām sure. But nobodyās going to type an URL into their browser just for one politician in 2026. Thatās how fucked we are as a society.
I fully agree, but it doesnāt help unless thereās enough content āsomewhere elseā and āsomewhere elseā isnāt ādifferent service for every streamer and politicianā. The reason something like Nebula works is that a whole lot of content creators got together. And they pretty much all still upload to YouTube too, because they need the money - they still get the majority of their views from there, despite offering exclusive content and early access on Nebula. Now Nebula is paid so it has a higher barrier to entry for viewers, but itās ad free and slop free.
You and I might go visit Mamdaniās website if he decides to stream on there, but millions of others will not, and he needs to reach them too. Personally, Iām not even the audience he needs to reach. I donāt live in the US, let alone NYC.
Personally I think he should also stream it here, but not get rid of the other alternatives just yet. And advertise that more prominently than Twitch or YouTube. Clearly heās already doing multistreaming, it would be great if he could add a non-corporate platform as an alternative. He could also read comments from all platforms rather than just Twitch because thereās technology for that too, though it depends on what his solution is (not like a streaming software solution is super hard to replace though).
I acknowledged that, but there are tons of gamers who outright refuse to entertain the idea of using it even if it was good.
GOG doesnāt suck at all, and sees much smaller sales numbers than Steam for games that are listed on both. I know Iām personally guilty of buying CP2077 on Steam rather than GOG (despite the fact that I could still use Proton for the GOG version).
ā¦no? It isnāt. He doesnāt have to support anyone else in order to not support Twitch.
Other than that, I would recommend checking out the Owncast directory to see how a federated streaming network can work. Or even look at the current state of podcasts and just apply that logic to streaming.
The only reason that doesnāt already exist is because Big Tech doesnāt want it to. They could all turn on Federation and make that a reality tomorrow. Again, I refer you to The Owncast directory to see what that future could look like.
Once again, chicken and egg. There will never be content somewhere else until someone puts it there.
Thatās because they only have DRM-free content, which means they have ~1\1000th of Steamās library, if that.
Personally I donāt buy from them because they donāt support Linux/Proton, even though they totally could. So I have to choose between free games or a free OS.
Him alone supporting or not supporting Twitch means absolutely nothing for Twitch, but quite a bit for his viewership. Just moving one creator off the biggest platform accomplishes nothing.
And I donāt see a universe where Big Tech is going to change itsā tune either unfortunately.
Basically every podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, some of the major ones also on YouTube. Howās that different from streaming?
And Iām saying thereās no point unless itās a coordinated effort. A single creator being unavailable on Twitch changes nothing, except that single streamerās visibility. It would have to be a ton of people streaming outside of the mainstream platforms for people to forget about Twitch.
Aye, but even games they DO have, they sell less than Steam, despite offering a technically superior product (DRM-free).
Their website runs fine on Firefox on Linux and you can use any number of utilities to run games with Proton and manage prefixes, such as Bottles, umu, etc. Heroic even provides a unifying launcher for GOG and a few other windows-only stores. Are you saying the convenience of the more proprietary platform is keeping you from using the less proprietary one? You can see how itās the same for 99% of humanity and corporate streaming services, right? The competing service needs to win on multiple points to overcome the convenience and familiarity of the existing.
Weāve already discussed several times precisely how it does. If you donāt agree, thatās fine, but you can stop repeating the same nonsense over and over.
Not as long as people like you continue to advocate against it.
Because theyāre also available without them. And YouTube does not have podcasts.
Brother you canāt just start at 5 million. Everything starts at one. Fortunately there are already hundreds, but none of them as influential as the mayor of NYC.
I donāt care about their website. I want a client where I click a button and the game launches.
It only works like 10% of the time. While Steam works 99%. Even when it works it doesnāt support a bunch of features that GOG desktop does.
No Iām saying one supports free operating systems and the other doesnāt.
Okay, tell me how many people are going to stop using Twitch because one single streamer streams elsewhere?
Yes, Iām the reason big tech wants to make more money, not because they like making money.
Yes, and this stream is also available on platforms that are not Twitch. Similarly to how everyone still gets their podcasts off Spotify or Apple Podcasts because those have all the podcasts, everyone will still stream on Twitch if all their other content is still on Twitch too.
Sure, YouTube doesnāt have podcasts.
And which app or website can you go to to see all of those hundreds in one place?
So you want convenience and itās worth more to you than your game being DRM-free. This is literally why every game dev still sells on Steam instead of delisting and going exclusively to GOG and itch. And itās why nobody who streams will take their stream off Twitch. Because of people like you, who want the convenience of going on Twitch and just clicking.
You donāt NEED any features other than ālaunch gameā. Some apps I can suggest for this: Konsole, alacritty, cosmic-term
But GOG supports free operating systems. The client is completely optional and it came several years after the website which supports every modern browser and OS. Not supporting free operating systems is an imaginary issue youāre making up to justify NOT LEAVING THE CONVENIENT CORPORATE PLATFORM THAT HAS ALL YOUR CONTENT IN ONE PLACE. If you really cared, you could also run the GOG client with Wine just like you run the games themselves.
It doesnāt matter how many times you ask this leading question, Iām not repeating myself. Scroll up. This conversation is never going to make sense to you if youāre unable to understand the simple concept of a transition.
No, people like you are the reason they will continue making money. People who actively advocate against alternatives.
Only if they elect to multistream them to those platforms. Every other platform heās streaming it to is ALSO Big Tech. Podcasts are distributed via an open protocol called RSS and you can listen to them however you want, without any platforms involved at all.
Can you link me to the RSS feed for these āpodcastsā? No? Then theyāre not podcasts.
Once again, already discussed above. If youāre just not going to read my responses, Iām going to stop writing them.
It doesnāt matter if its DRM-free or not if it DOESNāT WORK.
These are not āappsā, they are terminal emulators, and they obviously donāt solve the problem Iām describing.
I would to hear how you describe this. They have zero Linux software whatsoever. And they donāt support Proton, even though they absolutely could.
Thatās very obviously would simply not work.
Iām not advocating against alternatives, Iām saying thereās no point in dropping your visibility to zero if thereās not at least a semi-viable alternative to unify under.
Youāre just being obtuse on purpose.
Nearly nobody uses RSS readers these days, people get their podcasts on other apps. The RSS feed isnāt a defining feature of podcasts anymore and many of the biggest podcasts no longer use it. Out of the ones I linked, the smallest (and by far the best) one, Cortex, still has an official RSS Feed. Now show me a podcast with significant followership that does not host their content on Spotify, Apple or YouTube and is only available via the RSS feed.
What doesnāt? Most GOG games seem to work just fine on Linux. Heroic Launcher? Idk, I donāt use it much, itās unnecessary for GOG anyway, itās only really necessary for Epic which doesnāt have download links on the website (I suppose you COULD also curl the games, but that requires more setup than most people would want to do, with cookies and everything)
Open terminal,
umu-run ~/games/some_game/some_game.exe. You can even use tab to auto complete parts of the path.Done. Gameās running, faster than any big GUI launcher opens, whether it be Steam, or GOG Galaxy.
Whyās that? Itās literally how I played Assassinās Creed, except it was uplay rather than GOG Galaxy.
When you say that, thatās exactly what youāre doing. And it is not true, either.
What do you mean āother appsā? Every podcast app is an āRSS readerā. How do you think people listen to Spotify podcasts from the Apple podcasts app, and vise versa? You should really educate yourself more on how this works. You do not have to upload your podcast to Apple to be visible on Apple.
It is quite literally the only defining feature, other than containing audio/video media.
Then theyāre not podcasts.
Where theyāre hosted is not relevant. Every podcast with an RSS feed is available on Apple and Spotify apps. 100.0000% of them. Along with any and every other podcast app.
GOG games on Linux.
LOL this is a gross oversimplification and you know it. Its not that simple and it WILL NOT WORK. Iām not playing this game anymore.