Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to “it’s not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle”. I get that if everyone switched we’d be better off but we’re just not there yet.
It’s possible for them to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously, it’s common for streamers to do twitch and youtube at the same time. If the tools make it easy enough they might do it despite no potential to make money right away.
Pretty sure twitch has deals with streamers that restricts how they can stream. I think SimpleFlips had a video explaining why he stopped streaming on YouTube, he didn’t realize the twitch partner contract required him to stream exclusively on twitch at the time. I’ve also heard some things about how you can stream simultaneously, but twitch doesn’t allow you merging chats from different platforms, so if you want to show chat in the stream itself, each platform might need a separate box.
Makes it harder for community interaction given split chats though. And chatting with other random people in chats is like 60% of why I watch streams at all, so breaking that ruins the experience imo. Its like hanging out with a friend whose also just on a phone call the whole time.
You don’t need to watch this or that streamer to live. You can ditch them and do something else. The streamer goes where the money is. If they start seeing people don’t use twitch anymore, they will switch to whatever platform the audience wants. But alas, the audience seems to enjoy ads this way so…
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I feel like people are eager to change and make new habits but won’t go places where there is no content.
It’s the streamers and youtubers who need to move, but they won’t because of of the other platforms don’t have similar monetization
Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to “it’s not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle”. I get that if everyone switched we’d be better off but we’re just not there yet.
It’s possible for them to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously, it’s common for streamers to do twitch and youtube at the same time. If the tools make it easy enough they might do it despite no potential to make money right away.
Pretty sure twitch has deals with streamers that restricts how they can stream. I think SimpleFlips had a video explaining why he stopped streaming on YouTube, he didn’t realize the twitch partner contract required him to stream exclusively on twitch at the time. I’ve also heard some things about how you can stream simultaneously, but twitch doesn’t allow you merging chats from different platforms, so if you want to show chat in the stream itself, each platform might need a separate box.
I’m pretty sure Twitch has stopped exclusivity deals. They even recently allowed showing combined Twitch and Youtube chats on screen.
Makes it harder for community interaction given split chats though. And chatting with other random people in chats is like 60% of why I watch streams at all, so breaking that ruins the experience imo. Its like hanging out with a friend whose also just on a phone call the whole time.
Capital will claw you in and hold you down under the threat of bankruptcy.
You don’t need to watch this or that streamer to live. You can ditch them and do something else. The streamer goes where the money is. If they start seeing people don’t use twitch anymore, they will switch to whatever platform the audience wants. But alas, the audience seems to enjoy ads this way so…
This is self inflicted pain and people enjoy it.