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Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.

Microblog: social.ozoned.net/@ozonedLivestream: stream.ozoned.netVideos: video.thepolarbear.co.uk/@ozonedMatrix: matrix.to/#/#the-ozoned:matrix.orgKoFi: ko-fi.com/ozoned

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Owncast Stream whatever you want on your own platform and announce natively to the Fediverse!

IDK why but tons of folks think it's not feasible as they need million dollar computers. I've streamed to 70+ open streams, albeit as a test, on a like $5/month VPS. The key is that the resources needed are how many qualities you're transcoding, not how many folks are viewing. Yes bandwidth is needed for each viewer, but that's significantly less than people imagine.

Full transparency I run the !owncast community, but I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just love open platforms and open source.

Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?

I've explored a few platforms within the Fediverse, but most of them seem to be inspired by and mimic existing mainstream social media platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook. While this familiarity can be comforting, I can't help but wonder if there are any truly innovative and original platforms out there that offer a...

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I stream on Owncast and really enjoy it. One of the easiest installations I've ever had with software. And despite what lots of folks think you don't need a million dollars to stream to groups of folks.

Full disclosure I run the !owncast community and actively promote it on Matrix if anyone is interested or need help. :-D

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I've been on Proton for years and I've had a Visionary account for years. Proton's price doesn't really go up, but the quality and features does immensely. They give me extra storage every year. I get more VPNs, more password managers, more and more and more. IMO they have a track that shows they care about privacy and want to make things better.

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https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/

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Because the average person doesn't have a clue and they never think about this kind of thing. I've been called a conspiracy theorist by my own father as well as othesr for mentioning Snowden revalatins and using a VPN and all the privacy steps I take on the web.

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Well aware. And I trust Proton more than my local ISP.

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libreddit is the Reddit front end. Reddit did something, it seems they blocked IP addresses. There are ways around it and folks do have some instances, but there's sitll a lot out there that don't work. You can rung your own libreddit and put it through Cloudflare's bridge thing and then point libredirect to your own libreddit for stability.

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    You mean that I did an internet search for adorable and found a cute picture and posted it?

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    I just did an image search for adorable and saw this. It looks cute imo, of course don't harm animals. Man this place makes me really not want to participate anymore.

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    Their design was more mobile type wherr you don't minimize windows, you just switch between them or between spaces. I've used Gnome forever, including the rough times on Gnome 3.0, and I've always used a system tray as well. Never liked leaving clutter everywhere and imo it goes against the minimal design. But thankfully easily extendible.

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    It was in the description of the video, but it's a Hetzner VPS with 3 cores, 4GB of ram, 80GB disk, 20TB bandwidth.

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    It DOES Federate. It's not on by default, but it's super easy to do in the Owncast admin panel.

    I have it enabled so when I go live it announces to my Fediverse followers, think Mastodon, that I've gone live.

    Example:

    https://stream.ozoned.net/federation/UTjYI6FSg

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    Not sure I follow actually. DO mean have like a comments system underneath the video? Not sure how that'd work when folks go online and offline constantly.

    Gabe, Owncast dev, is working on clips and highlights of streams, so maybe he could have comments there if that's what you're referring to?

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    oh my gosh my heart wants to explode they're so CUTE! Thank you for sharing!

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    I just like to think they're friends or brother and sister personally. 😁

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    This was super insightful and nothing something that even crossed my mind. Thank you for explaining this. I can now see what mononomi was referring to. I appreciate the well thought out explanation. Thank you very much!

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    Nope. Full self hosted livestreaming. I personally use it to stream games. I started a communit at !owncast/lemmy.world and I've listed a few different streams. Some folks game, classic movies, music, etc. It's your own self hosted Twitch or YT streaming, etc.

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    I'm not understanding what you're stating. Me streaming a video game isn't blogging. If you mean that there isn't a list of folks all streaming, well there's https://directory.owncast.com to find folks. If you mean only you can stream to it, well that's not true as you can set up multiple stream keys and allow others to stream to it as well. So I'm really not understanding what you're stating.

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    You CAN use OBS! I've started an Owncast community at !owncast if you'd like to check it out. If you're used to streaming to YT or Twitch or anything else, OBS is 100% the same, you just pointed it to your Owncast server. Obviously setting up the server is more work, but GabeK has made installation and configuration as easy as possible. It's pretty awesome imo.

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    Owncast is a free and open source self hosted live streaming platform. Basically think of Twitch or YouTube Livestreams on your own hardware.

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    Do you have millions of viewers? With beefy enough hardware I'd assume you could, but not even the biggest streamers on Twitch stream to millions of viewers at a time. But that's just gaming. I know that Owncast is leveraged by all kinds of folks for different purposes. Some churches use it to broadcast to their congregation, some weddings have done it, funerals, radios, local public access channels, etc.

    I personally have a VPS on Hetzner, not sure about others. Obviously hosting is the thing. But I run a VPS for like $8/month, again on Hetzner, and I've done small live streams to about 15 people without much issue.

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    I'm just spreading the word.

    Have you used it? Have you looked at the docs? You can use a S3 bucket to handle distribution, though I've never done it. Nor am I going to theorize what will or won't work.

    People didn't think the Fediverse wouldn't work yet here we are.

    As for any number of video software, I'd love to know. I enjoy tech. Owncast works seamlessly with the Fediverse and OBS. I get to control my platform and it's what I know so I use it. If there is better out there, I don't know what I don't know.

    And lastly I personally enjoy the small internet. And I'm assuming folks here do as well, hence why we're all here. Plenty of other platforms that work better.

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    Awesome! TY! Who couldn't use more lettuce eating lettuce in their life?

    Now all we need is some fruit cannibalism and we'll have a well rounded meal! :-D

    Owncast Community ( lemmy.world )

    Just wanted to share this here that I just set up a !owncast and wanted to invite folks to share their livestreams there or their favorite livestreamers focused on #Owncast . NSFW is allowed, but I ask that you tag is accordingly. Also I've never done modding a community so any suggestions/help would be appreciated....

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    And already I've learned about referencing communities in Lemmy, thank you Mr. Lemmy bot, whoever you are.

    And thank you to folks for helping me realize that I don't have a clue how to create a post. URL OR Picture. Not both. :-D

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    Brilliant! Thank you so much for the recommendation! :-)

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    This blog actually prompted me to set up a lemmy community !owncast and I shared the blog there and just saw your post as well. :-D

    I <3 the and is such an amazing piece of it. Let's take back the internet!

    !owncast

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    Thanks for posting. Just signed up to the list. I have my own GoToSocial, but I'd still love to check out Mozilla's Mastodon.

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