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[-] beanz00_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

especially since the closest competitor rn is twitch which is an absolute shithole

[-] MoreThanCorrect@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As someone less familiar with twitch, what's making it a shithole?

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Twitch is overly hostile with its own subscriber base and doesn't pay nearly as much as YouTube. {Recent business decisions](https://digiday.com/marketing/how-twitch-lost-its-grip-on-and-way-with-the-streaming-community/) are really causing it to bleed streamers to other platforms, mostly YouTube.

[-] 80085@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Twitch takes 50% revenue. Youtube takes 30%. Twitch has an overly strict TOS to stay relatively kid-friendly. Twitch recently tried to limit content creators from showcasing sponsors in their own videos, but I think they backed away from that plan. Basically, it's at the fully enshittified stage at this point.

Apparently, there's a new twitch competitor, Kick, backed by an online gambling company, which I even worse. They have their content creators do gambling streams where the odds are modified to make it look like their games pay out more. And they explicitly promote bigots and fascists on their platform.

[-] krustymeathead@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

elon musk purchased it and laid off a ton of staff over time, leading twitter to be very poorly moderated and also have many technical glitches after that

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Twitch is owned by Amazon, Twitter is owned by Musk.

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