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What do y'all think of the live streaming platform, Owncast? (owncast.online)

submitted 5 days ago by Crazycookie@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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How good of an alternative is it to twitch? I've seen pretty less discussions about it compared to other fediverse platforms

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 2 days ago

Why oh why are streaming platforms still using rtmp in 2025 when it was stopped being developed pretty much in 2009? Why oh why don't they use something like SRT that has packet resending, can negotiate bit rates and adjust and use better codecs than x264 which is awful...