Not that I'm that bound to Twitch in general, but I did make affiliate a couple years back which means viewers can subscribe to my account which costs $5 and it gives me 50% in revenue while the other 50% goes to Twitch (this is probably one of their most generous cuts). The other thing is that I can run ads at a click of a button but I never do because ads suck and at the same time I haven't been having that many viewers lately. It used to be decent back when I was streaming Gods Unchained and there was some hype around the game, the community was pretty big and we were doing okay with onboarding players onto Hive (steem at the time) but it suffered a blow due to eth's scaling issues and development has been slow since then.
Anyway, I created an account on Theta a week ago and have been checking out what's going on there a few days now, it seems like an okay start for a streaming platform. I haven't been able to go into too much details yet about how it works, all the benefits it gives it's streamers and viewers but I highly doubt it will be as shitty as dlive so giving it the benefit of the doubt. Another thing I think is great is that since it actually has a real decentralized cryptocurrency (theta and tfuel) and viewers and streamers instantly get introduced to it I figured it would be a good place to also get Hive some visibility. Now of course I'm not just going to go on there to just tunnelvision shill Hive but already having a description of my main social media platform, some explanation of what it is, some links to the OCD discord for future gaming communities we want to grow along side Gods Unchained (once we pick that up again) and other blockchain games and at the same time offering account creation and guidance through our Discord for anyone interested to check it out could be a good idea to stream there instead of on Twitch as the possibility of someone already familiar with Crypto wanting to find out more about our chain.
The reason I have to choose is that as an affiliate Twitch doesn't let you stream on other platforms at the same time. Crazy, right? Well considering I haven't even made it up to $100 in revenue after a couple years of affiliate (not that I've been trying that hard or been consistent either cause Hive as always been my main focus) it's not going to be a difficult decision. At the same time I don't think that Theta has any similar restrictions which would allow me to use software such as Restream to connect and stream at the same time on many different platforms for the visibility and reach such as youtube, mixer,vimm, etc.
To be able to stream on Theta you need a streamer key right now, I'm assuming that's for the early phases so I wrote a quick tweet earlier and hoping I'll get one. Anyway, just wanted to write a quick post about some plans of mine about switching streaming platforms and hopefully getting the word of Hive more out there while gaming, curating or just talking to viewers when I'm live.
I'll probably make a more in depth post about Theta at some point once I find the time to do a little more digging and how I'm planning on getting a bit more active and consistent with streaming there and on other platforms as to grow my reach. Of course being a streamer who doesn't show his face has it's disadvantages but maybe my influence on Hive can make up for that a little bit.
Have any of you checked out Theta yet, what are your first impressions?
Oh and before I forget, I also like that being able to send tfuel/theta to anyone is possible as long as they have an account - they get their own wallet instantly. Thankfully we also have some decent account creation going on now with @hiveonboard so hopefully we'll get some more streamers sharing when they go live onto Hive as well and it working as a gateway to the rest of the ecosystem of Hive that they may not know about but start off with just streaming.
