Note that there may be fewer ads on Twitch, but there is still a machinery working on you to make you select various levels of subscriptions or buy vanity/chat

Note that there may be fewer ads on Twitch, but there is still a machinery working on you to make you select various levels of subscriptions or buy vanity/chat mechanics. It all hinges on streamers creating "1 to n" relationships, and such a dynamic changes the content. If only it was possible to pay for the true hosting and bandwidth cost, with discovery/search mechanisms either open source or on a separate service (decentralized and smaller in scope), and again a separate platform to support individual creators. Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the Twitch model might still suck on some level.