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OwnCast is a live streaming Fediverse server with built-in chat window, sort of like the Fedi's own alternative to Twitch.

You can follow OwnCast accounts from Mastodon etc, and they will post a message in your timeline when they start streaming.

The project's official account is at @owncast@fosstodon.org and the website is at owncast.online. There's a demo stream at watch.owncast.online

If you want to find streamers, there's a directory at directory.owncast.online and you can follow a bot that posts about new streamers at @owncast@botsin.space. You can also follow @FediVideos which boosts livestreams as well as PeerTube videos.

Some accounts I personally recommend following are @rstv, @Hamish, @live, @ozoned, @hatnix and @jnktn_tv

If you want to create your own OwnCast server, there's a quickstart guide at owncast.online/quickstart and in-depth documentation at owncast.online/docs

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@feditips @owncast @owncast @FediVideos @rstv @Hamish @live @ozoned @hatnix @jnktn_tv

OWNCAST CONSIDERATIONS:

Careful it consumes a lot of UP/DOWN DATA + HEAT TO DO OWNCAST VIDEO BROADCASTING...

Data default is ~1mb per second (up and down maybe = 2mb)

and then data is dropped / disposed of / disappears...

60min = 7.2GB / 7200mb
(both ways in total)
+ hardware involved
+ distance traveled

SOOO do try it lower resolution perhaps than standard setting...

I see audio as best footprint unless really you're showing more than just your hands on a keyboard or barely-moving screen code... a lot of own cast is just static and BIG WASTE of megabytes.

For example voice only would be say half a megabyte AND needs almost no hardware or power
(much less)

All that data + wattage etc does add up folks... make sure it's really useful if you project energy like that.

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@feditips @owncast@fosstodon.org @owncast@botsin.space @FediVideos @rstv @Hamish @live @ozoned @hatnix @jnktn_tv I'd love to support OwnCast if it let people record and do clips of their streams like on Twitch, but the way I see it, I find PeerTube to have better chances at doing that.

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