alt Hacker Newsno comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run
I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process
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tuveson • today at 2:04 AM
Twitch gets a big cut of individual creators’ subs, and I’d bet most people that stream also sub to other channels. Keeping people in the ecosystem is probably worth it, even if there’s some amount of “freeloading”.
operatingthetan • today at 1:18 AM
I mean if they are streaming to no clients, is there actually video being transmitted?
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nefarious_ends • today at 1:15 AM
do you think they get a blank check for AWS resources?
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I think there's a big "control premium" attached to these things. Not necessarily even that they will manipulate and censor rampantly, but that they could, I think the market prices highly.