> I don't really want such a entity presiding over the morality of my life, would you?
You typing in twitch.com is a choice, you're not forced to watch it or acknowledge its presence. People want Twitch accountability for their bans, and they might succeed, but the reality is that Twitch is currently the biggest gaming livestream platform simply because they already have everything that streamers and viewers want - live chat, monetization, moderation tools, etc. Live streaming is pretty easy to bootstrap with nginx-rtmp (maybe not as easy to turn a profit on[0]), so it's not like there's no way for competition to enter the market. Floatplane.com also does live streaming so they're going to end up as a sizable competitor within then next few years hopefully.
Right, I’d concede you have a point if it weren’t the entire fucking US Internet hell-bent on doing this.
This comment exists in every thread every time yet another company acquiesces to the new moral police. I’m not personally interested in reimplementing Twitch, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, email, and a bank.
It is extraordinarily unhealthy for society to completely bifurcate into two mutually exclusive enclaves that ban their political opponents wrongthoughts and seek to destroy the lives of those who transgress. That is the path we are on and it will not end well.
You typing in twitch.com is a choice, you're not forced to watch it or acknowledge its presence. People want Twitch accountability for their bans, and they might succeed, but the reality is that Twitch is currently the biggest gaming livestream platform simply because they already have everything that streamers and viewers want - live chat, monetization, moderation tools, etc. Live streaming is pretty easy to bootstrap with nginx-rtmp (maybe not as easy to turn a profit on[0]), so it's not like there's no way for competition to enter the market. Floatplane.com also does live streaming so they're going to end up as a sizable competitor within then next few years hopefully.
0: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-...