Oddbean new post about login | logout I’m still trying to hook things up so I can stream via my own site but not understanding the web stuff is super frustrating. Zapstream is good, it’s worked well so far but it’s still not data sovereign. The other thing is culture. Bitcoiners have pissed off a lot of people over the years and I’ve already had the odd comment about being more focussed on it. My reasons go pretty deep and I won’t bore you but I know if I was hosting on my own site using something like Owncast I’d get a lot more support on Fedi. I’m not hating on ZapStream at all, just reporting what’s going on.
Can you please expand on how hosting (content/stream/etc) on your own site makes it better for you than on zap.stream? I'm not expressing doubts, I just want to learn more about your perspective.
My perspective is taking ownership of the data, I already have a domain. If it streams from that I 1: don’t have to pay addition fees 2: I can control what’s archived. I don’t think Zapstream allows me to delete and the streams so far have all started poorly, especially the first ones where it kept going when OBS crashed. Ive tried as much as possible to keep and use my data so I have Nextcloud, my music, PeerTube and Mastodon instances. Personally I think Meta ruined the internet and I’m taking my little piece back!