Massively exciting! Can’t wait to see what all of these devices can do in the future. They have more than enough power. Let’s stop throwing these devices away and repurposing them for amazing things.

Thank YOu!

Talking with Ben Pate today at 1500 Eastern. Robert is tomorrow at 1100

Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he’s written extensively on social media. I’ve unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.

https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ if folks wanna watch live and ask questions.

https://video.firesidefedi.live/ if you wanna watch the show afterwards.

I have a friend that also brought up discoverability as an issue, so she stayed on Twitch. Twitch also has a massive discoverability problem and they have numerous tools, but there’s so much noise it’s impossible to rise above it.

With Owncast discoverability is organic atm. It’s a tiny, but growing pond. Like anything else anymore, if you want to be discovered you have to do the leg work.

But it’s definitely NOT Twitch and you won’t get famous or make tons of money.

What you can do though is control your platform, stream what you want, etc.

I personally LOVE Owncast. It’s how I’ve met numerous folks and built a community. I use my own for games and tech, https://stream.ozoned.net/ . I’ve even done some testing to see how much overhead it needs, https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1itGRqF41XeTfrismnsesL , and how many opens streams you can have.

I also use Owncast to livestream my Fireside Fedi episodes, https://stream.firesidefedi.live/ . I even spoke with Gabe Kangas on the show in the past https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/nyM8V7WzVb1f2GehjAdSTX

I’ve spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can’t work. With THOUSANDS of people you’d probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there’s S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they’ll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.

I’m very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.

https://directory.owncast.online/

Well thank you so much for all you do Nelizea! Hopefully someday they will give more consideration to us, but for now, we’re lucky to have folks like yourself volunteering time. Very much appreciated!

Asking the tough questions.

Does GoToSocial accounts not work? Couldnt Auth. I never got the message. Tried a few times to auth.

• group name - BT Free
• matrix and/or discord - https://matrix.to/#/#btfree-space:matrix.org or https://discord.gg/suw6E3W5
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• a fun fact! - BT Free is a nonprofit organization that focuses on digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting. We believe that you should be able to own your data. Let’s take the power away from Big Tech by supporting open source software and open platforms.

• group name - Fireside Fedi
• matrix and/or discord - https://matrix.to/#/#firesidefedi:matrix.org
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• a fun fact! - Started Fireside Fedi thinking no one would watch, but I’d still just have fun. Now there’s hundreds of folks watching and listening and I’ve talked to a LOT of amazing folks and so much passion, excitement, and amazing tech coming to the Fediverse.

lots of indie musicians on the fediverse. :-)

Oh I absolutely do it for passion. LOVE talking with folks, especially about foss and open platforms. And definitely haven’t made really any money. And any money goes to TubeFree or back to the Fediverse somehow. I’ve definitely spent way more than I’ve made. Lol

TY for linking. :-)

Asking for constructive criticism reasons, is there a reason you don’t watch or listen? I’ve been told my mic quality bothers folk, so working on getting a new setup for that this week hopefully. :-D If you just don’t listen because you’re not a consumer of that kind of content or just not interested, totally understand. I just thriving on constructive criticism. :-)

lol wow I hope folks don’t follow my ramblings. :-) But I do like Voyager and TY for suggesting!

lol I am here. I’m all in on the Fediverse. ;-) If there’s a platform in the Fedi I’m not on, please let me know so I can learn about it! :-D

Thank you for your hard work! Let me know if you’d like to talk on Fireside Fedi with me sometime!

MSI, unknown model, VBIOS version 015.050.002.001.000000 [2017/11/13 20:06].

AMD RX 560