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I found out recently there's a place on the web, right now, that has all the charm and personality of the "homepages" of the 90s and early 00s. A place where y
by andy_xor_andrew 3y ago
I found out recently there's a place on the web, right now, that has all the charm and personality of the "homepages" of the 90s and early 00s.
A place where you can make your own little corner of the web, share it with friends, find others with overlapping interests, etc. It can be uniquely yours, and even if there are hundreds of others, yours is unique because it's yours.
And believe it or not, it's... Twitch. Seriously- small, personal Twitch streams, usually with fewer than ~50 views.
And I think this emergence is quite poetic, because the exact same thing that killed the "old" web - that is, nearly unlimited bandwidth for streaming rich media - is the thing that makes Twitch possible.
Just open Twitch, click around, search for something that interests you, and you'll find someone streaming in their cozy room, possibly on camera or possibly with a cute PNG or 3D avatar, talking about that topic, interacting with chat, etc. It's a really nice world there, if you know where to look and what to filter out.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoI followed your suggestion and searched for Arduino, DIY electronics, etc. but haven't found anything. Is Twitch only for gaming or was I simply doing something wrong (which is entirely possible)?
- navjack27 3y agoEsports_are_for_losers does content like that
- The_Colonel 3y agoIn what way is it different from e. g. small youtube channels or small subreddits?
- TillE 3y agoYeah it helps if you're really into some niche gaming community (eg, retro game randomizers), but in my ~30 years of being extremely online, my closest online friends have pretty much all come from small Twitch streams and their associated Discords.
- ehnto 3y agoI used to get this from forums and chat rooms and can echo the sentiment that Twitch can have similar community. The important thing is just that every time you show up, some of the same people are there and there is room to talk to them. Also one of the biggest downsides to matchmaking in games was it removed that aspect of it, which has destroyed the community aspect of a lot of games.
- davkan 3y agoI still remember a few names of people I played with in Halo CE servers two decades ago. Not even clan members, or those I made a closer connection with. Just random people who enjoyed the same servers I did. I’ve missed that kind community in every matchmaking game I’ve played. The only way to get familiar faces with matchmaking is to get good enough at a game that the pool of potential matches is tiny.
- nitwit005 3y agoHadn't thought of it that way, but it does have that feel at times. Even the animated gifs are there.