I wonder if it would be advantageous to make a community about live streaming now that Twitch has finally grown out of being a gaming platform. Justin TV was so much more diverse, live streams are so much more than just Twitch and the meta there. Edit: how some people feel about twitter is how I feel about Twitch. A company is making a genre of media uninteresting to me.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Comparing twitter to twitch is like comparing walmart to college football.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Um. Why? I think Walmart and college football are both highly profitable and abusive enough that federal regulation should be hitting their business practices. But Twitter and twitch? Pre-elon, I think they both had an effective monopoly on their markets but weren't visibly abusing that monopoly. They are, but its just not that damaging.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is a one off monolith of a style of social media, in the genre of reddit and facebook. Like wal mart to target and other generic shopping centers.

Twitch is not a generic social media site, its a specific style of entertainment. Like football, its creating a specific event style entertainment catering to people looking for a specific thing.

If their only shared point of comparison is that they are big and make lots of money (which is the same thing repeated twice) then there is no real shared point of comparison.

It doesnt make sense to say twitter is driving you away from the concept of social media, in the same way it doesnt make sense to say walmart is driving you away from the concept of buying groceries.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

No I think twitch hosts all kinds of livestreams and hides behind the ides that they are all about gaming. Twitch maintains more style than other social media, but its just monopolizing one kind of social media post. Live streams.