I remember a number of years ago I was looking for a place other than Twitch to stream. Now I really didn't have much against Twitch, and even though I have been on it since it was Justin.TV, I found it crowded and a hard place to get noticed. Oh, I wasn't looking to have 40 or 50 thousand viewers and follows, but I figured that if I could get 5 to 10, then I would be happy, and I would surely not only followed them back, but would actually become one of their viewers. What I noticed was that trying to get people was difficult, and found that many small creators would only send their show to large creators with a large number of people already watching. I think that it would be better if the small streamers would help each other out.
But anyway, I came up on this streaming site called DLive. Getting onto it was easy, and I noticed that much of the users were from other countries outside of the USA. I noticed that the staff were streamers, and that they would do update and Q&A shows often. They would also implement new things for the streamers, and overall it became a great place to stream, but them they seem to get greedy in some ways. Now I understand that it takes money to keep these site going, but they started putting in levels in order for the creators to do certain things, things that I think would get viewers to subscribe. Then I noticed towards the end of the world-wide pandemic, I would find the staff on less and less, and it seemed as though they didn't care anymore. I found myself looking for other places to stream, and found myself elsewhere.
I never deleted my DLive account, and even kept it in my bookmarks. After a few years I went back to to see if things had changed for the better, and even though it hadn't, I would check in from time to time. After the J6 event in the USA, I stopped in a few months later, and took a deep look around. As I looked around I noticed that the IRL channel and other channels had become more and more "right wing", but not that bad. KICK came along at some point, and I noticed how racist, homophobic, sexist, etc it was. To show how bad it was, several of the people on the front page had title using racist terms, with one channel being highlighted and the person repeatedly using a term towards Blacks.
I went to use places like Glimesh and a few others which are no longer around, then when they all closed I checked out Twitch, Kick and DLive again. Twitch hadn't and still hasn't changed, and when someone says they want people to subscribe to them, I tell them I will after they subscribe to my channel (actually nobody can as I am not at that level,) but would hear the excuses as when they wouldn't and excuses as to why they couldn't even follow my channel.
When I checked out Kick, I noticed that they had done a great just of cleaning up the site of the hateful stuff that was on it. Yeah, some of it can be still found, but they seem to remove creators and stuff as fast as they can who abuse the TOS.
I went and checked DLive, and noticed that there was right wing stuff there, but it wasn't that much. By this time I had found a few new streaming start-ups, and figured that I would give them a chance and hope to help them grow. One of them is great, as they have it setup so that one can multi-stream to other platforms as you streamed on their platform. I found out about BeamStream through Josh when he mentioned it on an episode of one other shows.
Anyways, I got things setup and added a few other places to the multistream. Now even though I didn't care for what was going on stream wise with DLive, I put it in there. I knew that with DLive I wouldn't have to go to the site, and would say in the ticker that I use that the only chat that I checked would be on Beamstream. After streaming on Beamstream for a while, I realized that I needed to make a couple of changes on DLive and other streaming sites. When I went to DLive I was horrified in what I saw. It was like those who were kicked from KICK had gone there. What was and is worse is that this isn't just streamers from the USA, but from other parts of the world with their hateful talk. I have tried to put up with it and not think about it, but I can't stream there anymore. The owners have let that place go down.
Now I can put up with a lot of things, and am willing to turn my eyes away on things, but the people who run DLive need to take control again. I would feel dirty and filthy if I continued to use that platform. I really don't want to do it, but I just can't associate myself with them until they clean that place up.
In the meantime you can find me streaming on Beamstream with my multistreams going out to places like Kick, Twitch, Vaughn, Shareplay, Picarto, Trovo and elsewhere.
I remember a number of years ago I was looking for a place other than Twitch to stream. Now I really didn't have much against Twitch, and even though I have been on it since it was Justin.TV, I found it crowded and a hard place to get noticed. Oh, I wasn't looking to have 40 or 50 thousand viewers and follows, but I figured that if I could get 5 to 10, then I would be happy, and I would surely not only followed them back, but would actually become one of their viewers. What I noticed was that trying to get people was difficult, and found that many small creators would only send their show to large creators with a large number of people already watching. I think that it would be better if the small streamers would help each other out.
But anyway, I came up on this streaming site called DLive. Getting onto it was easy, and I noticed that much of the users were from other countries outside of the USA. I noticed that the staff were streamers, and that they would do update and Q&A shows often. They would also implement new things for the streamers, and overall it became a great place to stream, but them they seem to get greedy in some ways. Now I understand that it takes money to keep these site going, but they started putting in levels in order for the creators to do certain things, things that I think would get viewers to subscribe. Then I noticed towards the end of the world-wide pandemic, I would find the staff on less and less, and it seemed as though they didn't care anymore. I found myself looking for other places to stream, and found myself elsewhere.
I never deleted my DLive account, and even kept it in my bookmarks. After a few years I went back to to see if things had changed for the better, and even though it hadn't, I would check in from time to time. After the J6 event in the USA, I stopped in a few months later, and took a deep look around. As I looked around I noticed that the IRL channel and other channels had become more and more "right wing", but not that bad. KICK came along at some point, and I noticed how racist, homophobic, sexist, etc it was. To show how bad it was, several of the people on the front page had title using racist terms, with one channel being highlighted and the person repeatedly using a term towards Blacks.
I went to use places like Glimesh and a few others which are no longer around, then when they all closed I checked out Twitch, Kick and DLive again. Twitch hadn't and still hasn't changed, and when someone says they want people to subscribe to them, I tell them I will after they subscribe to my channel (actually nobody can as I am not at that level,) but would hear the excuses as when they wouldn't and excuses as to why they couldn't even follow my channel.
When I checked out Kick, I noticed that they had done a great just of cleaning up the site of the hateful stuff that was on it. Yeah, some of it can be still found, but they seem to remove creators and stuff as fast as they can who abuse the TOS.
I went and checked DLive, and noticed that there was right wing stuff there, but it wasn't that much. By this time I had found a few new streaming start-ups, and figured that I would give them a chance and hope to help them grow. One of them is great, as they have it setup so that one can multi-stream to other platforms as you streamed on their platform. I found out about BeamStream through Josh when he mentioned it on an episode of one other shows.
Anyways, I got things setup and added a few other places to the multistream. Now even though I didn't care for what was going on stream wise with DLive, I put it in there. I knew that with DLive I wouldn't have to go to the site, and would say in the ticker that I use that the only chat that I checked would be on Beamstream. After streaming on Beamstream for a while, I realized that I needed to make a couple of changes on DLive and other streaming sites. When I went to DLive I was horrified in what I saw. It was like those who were kicked from KICK had gone there. What was and is worse is that this isn't just streamers from the USA, but from other parts of the world with their hateful talk. I have tried to put up with it and not think about it, but I can't stream there anymore. The owners have let that place go down.
Now I can put up with a lot of things, and am willing to turn my eyes away on things, but the people who run DLive need to take control again. I would feel dirty and filthy if I continued to use that platform. I really don't want to do it, but I just can't associate myself with them until they clean that place up.
In the meantime you can find me streaming on Beamstream with my multistreams going out to places like Kick, Twitch, Vaughn, Shareplay, Picarto, Trovo and elsewhere.