AltStream.Online

AltStream.Online

@altstream.online

Creating a streaming service away from Advertisers, AI and a place for you to truly be yourself. https://altstream.online

2.8K followers10 following220 posts

And here was me thinking that the reason people went to streaming sites was to see streamers. If we wanted cloud gaming we'd go check out OnLive... oh wait... Anyway, did you know our featured streamers spot on the front page is random? We give everyone a spot, not just the biggest communities.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

Twitch is experimenting with using its front page as an Amazon Luna promotional vehicle, pushing creator discovery down a shelf.

Twitch continues to do our marketing for us I see. "we don't want to make our own tools, bet we can get someone else to pay for the LLM slop too" - twitch probably. Meanwhile, our site is made by a single human dev with assistance from community members who actually know what they're doing.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

OpenAI and Twitch are teaming up to see what developers can build for the Twitch community with AI. The top five will be featured at Twitchcon.

A user of altstream posted about using AI to mangle something approximating music together. I would think it doesn't need to be said but our platform is a strictly no genAI space. If you promote it's use, you will be removed. It's that simple.

Well Ashe has made me a filthy liar and has resolved the issues we were having. Altstream is now back online! Thank you for your patience.

AltStream.Online@altstream.online

Update: Altstream will be down for at least the remainder of today while we continue to work on our webserver. TLDR: the vulnerability fixes from yesterdays dumpster fire on the internet has got mist server and the website not wanting to play nice. Sorry for the continued downtime.

Update: Altstream will be down for at least the remainder of today while we continue to work on our webserver. TLDR: the vulnerability fixes from yesterdays dumpster fire on the internet has got mist server and the website not wanting to play nice. Sorry for the continued downtime.

We are currently working on a bug that is preventing the media server from showing that folk are live on altstream. Sorry for the downtime, we will update you here when we have a fix.

AltStream.Online reposted

The alpha for my @altstream.online websocket bridge is available for free on ko-fi. All it requires is java to be installed. There is both a linux and windows version. This allows you to send messages from an #altstream account via websockets. I send websocket messages with #vnyan for my bot.

AltStream.Online reposted

#VNyan 1.7.3b hotfix adds AltStream Tips-node. You can use that if you have Ko-fi webhooks connected to your AltStream account~ Also fixes couple issues with AltStream Shoutout-node

AltStream.Online reposted

💖 LIVE NOW 💖 YAP TIME, GAYS! Oh and also cute farming gaym too hehe~ 💖 🟣 twitch.tv/elouyn 🟠 altstream.online/elouyn #Vtuber • #Vsky • #LiveNow • #FieldsOfMistria

TODAY: Back on the field, toiling away! We out here achievement hunting in #FieldsOfMistria! I’ll see you all in a couple hours for our regularly scheduled Yappin’ & Gaymin’, my darlings! 💖

AltStream.Online reposted

Initial alpha of FoxedItUp is now available for brave people to test. Keyword: "alpha". This gives partial support for using MixItUp with @altstream.online. Currently working are Channel Points, !commands and *maybe* incoming raid alerts github.com/LumKitty/Fox...

github.comGitHub - LumKitty/FoxedItUp: Partial MixItUp support for AltStreamPartial MixItUp support for AltStream. Contribute to LumKitty/FoxedItUp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Streamers, you can now add a sub badge to your altstream! Viewers who subscribe to you via Ko-Fi can now get your sub badge in chat and get a channel point multiplier! As this is going via Ko-Fi integration we do not take a cut and your funds are available instantly!

There have been a lot of folk asking about our financials. So I think it's time we put out a statement. Please keep in mind this is something we are actively working on and details are subject to change.

View full thread

In time we plan to have a funding page on the website, this will show the current monthly funding altstream receives along with milestones that will show exactly what we are building towards and how much the platform needs to make it happen.

There have been a lot of folk asking about our financials. So I think it's time we put out a statement. Please keep in mind this is something we are actively working on and details are subject to change.

View full thread

To make the community funding option work we are focusing on core functionality (streams) over more cost prohibitive things like VOD storage. We are also using a server host that allows us to pay a flat fee for unlimited bandwidth. Meaning we do not have rising costs as more users join.

We will expand our hardware fleet only after we have the funding to do so, we are funded at our current scale until January. We're taking this slow and believing that there is a community who are willing to fund a no AI no ads alternative to the current streaming platforms.

There have been a lot of folk asking about our financials. So I think it's time we put out a statement. Please keep in mind this is something we are actively working on and details are subject to change.

AltStream.Online reposted

The upcoming #VNyan 1.7.3 is going to add support for AltStream~ At launch we'll have callback nodes for follows, raids, channel points, chat messages and commands. Beta version will hopefully be available soon~

We might not be able to get you a whole dollar in sponsor funds. But we can promise we're never scraping your streams.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg

Twitch Sponsorship AI "Campaign Assist" is now fully implemented and will warn you in the Activity Feed if you mention things like Explicit Language, Alcohol, Drugs, politics, and other issues when doing Twitch's low-paying sponsorships.

What can we say other than thank you. Altstream has now hit 2000 registered users, just a few weeks ago we could scarcely imagine hitting this milestone! From a personal project for one streamer to get away from twitch we've grown into a thriving community, and you all made it happen!

We've been hard at work on preparing a proper API for integrations and looking for ways to expand our offerings to those who choose to monetarily support the project. We hope that you will stick with us as we navigate this exciting new chapter!

AltStream.Online reposted

Thank you so much for 100 followers on #AltStream! This site has truly reignited my passion for streaming, even with the lower viewership! Being surrounded by like-minded people with similar values is just so fucking refreshing. Thank you endlessly for your support! 💖 🧡 altstream.online/elouyn 🧡

Good morning from us at alt stream, and a huge thank you to everyone who has signed up to give our site a try! As of this morning we have passed 1500 registered users! We couldn't be doing this without all of you!

AltStream.Online reposted

The site is running extremely stable, we have MistServer running well now too! I'm taking the weekend off doing any code, it's been a few weeks since I had time to just play anything, however if you need us for anything we're still around on socials and the Stoat / Discord. Enjoy streaming! ❤️

Multiple days and late nights later, having overcome annoying roadblocks and other obsticles but we are finally back up and running. New hardware, and new media service that hasn't been poisoned by AI. We're back!

Database and Site have been moved across successfully, we opened the site very briefly and did a test stream, was great. We still need to finish up with the moving across two more parts of the site, but when that's done we're good to go for a good while again! Will be back up in less than 24 hours

Just because the new server migration is going that doesn't stop me working! I was reviewing the information IGDB has and it allows me to also pull the AI disclosure from Steam! Cool, so let's hook that to the game search and add a nice little box to state where it uses AI for streamers and users!

You're welcome to still play the game. We just want to make sure that as an Anti-AI platform streamers and users are aware before going live and while viewers are watching!

We are now in Maintenance mode while we start moving the database across. We do not have an ETA on completion but I will not be sleeping until it's back. :) Sorry about the disruption! It's for the greater good!

AltStream.Online@altstream.online

Migration still ongoing, we’re currently going through all the security setup first making sure everything is tight before moving our systems across. While that’s been happening, I’ve wrapped up the first iteration of a no auth required public API, It’s being tested currently for stability.

I’ve ended up taking a short nap while we wait for the morning team for the new server to come in. We need someone with physical access to the server to continue. Apologies, we’ll stay in maintenance mode until we get it sorted!

We don’t use @bear-den.org but it’s a very valid! We’ve used a local smaller business ourselves. One of the things we are doing is trying to avoid the monopolies and grow the smaller businesses! 🎉

Bear Den Hosting@bear-den.org

Don't forget to look at smaller businesses as well for other needs! Bear Den Hosting is a small, LGBTQIA+ friendly hosting service for web, email, cloud, and social media - we'd love to talk to you about what we can do to help you break away from Big Tech!

Migration still ongoing, we’re currently going through all the security setup first making sure everything is tight before moving our systems across. While that’s been happening, I’ve wrapped up the first iteration of a no auth required public API, It’s being tested currently for stability.

AltStream.Online reposted

AltStream working on their server infrastructure, community and the people running it are A+ good beans too. Love it. Once they're a little more happy with it I'm never gonna shut up about the place.

Looks like they’re going to be live at some point, more than 5 people should see this post! Altstream.online/jeffaroine :)

altstream.onlineJeffaroine is live!Hello! I'm Jeff. I dabble in pixel art and 3D modeling!
Scarearoine@jeffaroine.bsky.social

Going to start live streaming at some point on @altstream.online. I hope the 5 people who read my posts are interested!!!! I've only streamed like 2 times on other services like twitch so I think it would be cool to have a fresh start on Altstream!!!! Use my username as a referral when you sign up!!

AltStream.Online reposted

Hi, Update time! We'll be moving over to our first dedicated bare metal server! We're keeping the current setup to handle some of the less intensive systems and there will be a noticeable performance increase! No AWS. The host we are using handles bare metal deployments for smaller businesses.

To add to this, we went from 200 to 700 users in 24 hours, thank you all so much for the interest, we are doing everything we can to make everything stable as quickly as possible!