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I checked out that "altstream" thing and I'm doing a concern. I haven't taken a deep look but it looks to be using WebRTC and serving from either a single SFU, or a single LB hosted out of maybe London in Oracle Cloud? Hopefully this is proof of concept cruft and they have a scaling plan...

Anyway, I advise caution before hanging your entire everything on this. I'm not convinced they can scale and they're already having delivery problems.

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I signed up as a potential dual streaming platform since I do know a few people who have left Twitch for obvious reasons and this was my concern, either they would have trouble scaling or they wouldn't because they're getting money from somewhere dubious. I hope it works out though.

We'll know very quickly. If they thought they could do this on one server, they're already finding out. I'll dig more later. Kinda busy ATM. I'd love to know what their software stack is and I can probably probe that out.

"closed source single developer passion project as a [large platform] replacement" is gonna be this pretty much every time but i never want to be the wet towel 😔

Neither do I but unfortunately the last time one of these showed up, they suddenly broke out the crowdfunding collection plate then disappeared with the money and I wanna be ahead with "Field expert has concerns" before that happens.