Title. Curious if I should get a Twitch account or not as currently I only have YouTube. Not sure if I want another corpo ad machine in my life.
Twitch. I figure their corporate masters are about equally evil, so if you really have to choose one you may as well go with the one that still has better discoverability, community, and chat. #AlternatePlayer makes it tolerable.
Interesting, your comment is about 30 minutes old now I believe but it’s showing as “Now” to me - I wonder if your instance’s clock is out of sync.
YouTube. Twitch is cancer. Also you can rewind, start over, etc in the middle of a stream. You’re not going to miss anything.
Twitch is better for seeing the chat next to the video. YouTube is better to watch a stream that is in progress from the beginning.
YouTube, but there are a few creators that only stream on Twitch that I like. The content is more important than the platform to me.
Also, weirdly, I find Twitch generally has the less toxic chat - Twitch as a company tends to be better at policing their platform while YouTube really doesn’t give a shit… Moderators are definitely more impactful, but Google really doesn’t give a shit about moderating.
I don’t watch live streams. It’s the same concept like watching TV. I think YouTube and video on demand has been a great achievement.
Currently twitch because there are the people, I like to see streaming their games.
I would prefer YouTube because no advertisements due to uBlock. I know there are twitch adblockers but they don’t work very well.
Also twitch seems to be filled with softcore/ lots of almost sexual content which I don’t want to see.
Twitch is better for audience integration like what happens in dougdoug’s stream, and unless it’s some major event or well produced ttrpg I can’t be arsed to watch unedited content.
twitch for the interactivity and availability of broadcasters but youtube for the interface and mobile apps (i have youtube premium)
No.
Twitch, for the community. I used to watch youtube streams and i’m still not even sure if they have raiding. Also drops, game integration, channel points.
YouTube calls raids “Live Redirects.” Imagine the meetings that went into that corpo wash.
Kick—syphoning up as much thotwater as possible from thirst traps
In all honesty, I never messed with yt streaming and was quite chronically on twitch for almost ten years. Mostly hanging out in Aris’ streams listening to him talk trash and dicking around. But, his channel got so big and too overrun by overzealous mods that he doesn’t ban anyone unless you @ him with something stupid. The subject of Paul Walker came up and I was memeing like everyone else and put “Pedo Paul” as the most throwaway comment ever, and guess what? I was afk and came back to a permaban. I know it wasn’t Aris (the streamer) because I know he wouldn’t have given two shits about that. So, I was like, all the other streams I ever really watch are dark souls and re1 speedruns, might as well use this as an opportunity to be more productive with my time instead of hanging out in vacuous chat rooms absorbing the exact same content continuously.
I hungout in his stream for the vga’s to see the memefest I knew it would be, but I sort of look at it as a fun time while it lasted, and a gratuitous ban from my favorite streamer is what I needed to break away from the unproductive, rote addiction I had. Podcasts are a better alternative to background noise or multitasking anyway. At least for me.
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