@gabek @josh As someone who tried to get off Twitch to create my own Owncast server, I can tell you it was problematic… Josh tried to help in the ways he could with videos after the fact, but I stupidly mangled it all and ended up becoming so frustra...
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@gabek @josh As someone who tried to get off Twitch to create my own Owncast server, I can tell you it was problematic… Josh tried to help in the ways he could with videos after the fact, but I stupidly mangled it all and ended up becoming so frustrated I just walked away. My biggest hurdle was the simple act of acquiring and connecting a Hetzner server and it just went down hill from there… I mean, I had problems figuring out the concept of a Droplet… Self-hosting is never going to be in my future. The verbage, the jargon, and the learning curve were too steep and time-consuming. I’ve spent a lifetime learning and doing art and theatre. I couldn’t take this on, too.
I hear setting up PeerTube instance is even more challenging. Most folks won’t have any experience acquiring the equipment or connections or doing the things required to set up a streaming server. That’s far too much to expect for anyone to do who is simply trying to get off the Twitch boat. But the middle-ground (streaming on someone else’s PeerTube server) isn’t nearly fleshed out enough to attract most streamers used to a more robust set of features.
So I agree with you, and I’m sad I wasn’t the target audience because I thought I wanted it. I felt like it was for me. But it was like learning a recipe: I didn’t even know what half the ingredients were let alone how to use them to make a dish.
And I don’t have to know any of that anywhere else—I can focus on my content and what I do best. So I let it go.
