Well, so much for considering a return to twitch as an entertainment option
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it's twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I'm starting to think we have the internet we deserve.
I feel like people are eager to change and make new habits but won't go places where there is no content.
It's the streamers and youtubers who need to move, but they won't because of of the other platforms don't have similar monetization
Yeah exactly. The culture and the people make twitch, not the platform.
Same with YouTube - I could switch to peertube but I would be missing out on so many creators and so much content I genuinely wanna watch.
To me this always boils down to "it's not worth it to live a boring life just out of principle". I get that if everyone switched we'd be better off but we're just not there yet.
It's possible for them to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously, it's common for streamers to do twitch and youtube at the same time. If the tools make it easy enough they might do it despite no potential to make money right away.
Makes it harder for community interaction given split chats though. And chatting with other random people in chats is like 60% of why I watch streams at all, so breaking that ruins the experience imo. Its like hanging out with a friend whose also just on a phone call the whole time.
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So many platforms are like this. I think it's because content creators their business tied into these systems.
If the viewers dry up they’ll stop being paid and leave.
It’s on every user to dump the platform.
Don't underestimate the power of inertia.
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Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.
But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn't have enough yet.
Blame the browsers for creating the APIs.
You mean Google.
No, I mean they all decide to adopt this shit.
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Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.
Avoid enshittifying Twitch for a better experience.
We're getting closer and closer to this:
Holy fuck it's real
rofl why does the patent have the viewer stand up and cheer it
to show those people with difficulties standing who the real bosses are
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That's a full boycott from me, dawg.
Not even once. I'm good watching recycled twitch clips wherever they crop up. Fuck your business model with a pitchfork.
Drink verification can.
I must be lucky, I've not seen any ads on twitch.
Also, I don't use twitch.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-page-visibility/
same for chrome based browsers. an API that should never have existed in the first place.
I think the real alternatives are Peertube or Owncast, because they are non commercially and FOSS and can be self hosted and federated.
In the long run, every commercial platform that has enough users will enshittify, that's just capitalism. That's why we have to break the cycle and reject corporate social media.
I guess I'll continue never using twitch.
I too shall continue my boycott that begin in 1981
I already saw this Black Mirror episode
That's gonna take a whopping 10 lines of userscript to defeat, hell I already had to use one to stop them from dropping the video quality when unfocused (so I could watch streams in PiP properly)
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Feels like a definite mile marker in our descent to Idiocracy.
This is Black Mirror, not Idiocracy. If you can only relate to reality through fiction, at least use the appropriate one.
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gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies
Like, die in a fire Twitch! That's some unhinged behavior which made me delete my account, and I left some pointed feedback. Not that they'll care, but, fuck those fuckers!
I use twitch for one thing and it's literally to help support a friend of mine. He streams as part of his job to make money. You can't currently do that on other websites and get the same benefit.
I have never liked twitch but I have a pretty valid reason for using it. He wouldn't reach the audience he does there anywhere else except YouTube who don't pay much if anything for streaming and take a more significant cut of donations.
People won't leave because the viable options aren't giving the same benefits, and it's not just about the viewers, but also the content creators.
I stopped going to the theater because I had to pay to watch commercials and advertisements.
I stopped because morons can't stay off their phones for 5 bloody minutes.
Basically stopped watching twitch bwcause of the stupid fucking unskippable ads... and I'm glad i did, I'm never going back, fuck them and their bs ads. Much more free time :)
Sounds like something browsers should have an option to prevent. Or just don't use twitch in the first place.
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Host your own OwnCast (https://owncast.online/). It uses ActivityPub and is part of the Fediverse.
Here's mine: https://live.fraxoweb.com/
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There has to be a way to write a plug in to fool sites into thinking you have volume on and the tab in focus.
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wow, what an awful idea
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