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Anyone still live-streaming their life like oldschool webcams? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by Acamon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Back in the early days of the internet, there were a bunch of webcams anyone could view - sometimes a street, sometimes the coffee machine of a lab, and, occasionally, someone's bedroom or appartment. Although they were much talked about, I'm sure it was a tiny number of people, and probably not for very long. And because of crappy bandwidth, most of these cams were more like constantly updating image, rather than actual video. Tbh, maybe it's not even a real thing, but I definitely remember it being spoken about.

Nowadays obviously things are great for people who want strangers to know what they're up to, they've got countless media to choose from. And 'watching a stranger do mundane things' was packaged up and sold as reality TV a long time ago.

But I guess my question is, are there people still live-streaming their life - without it being a sex thing (like onlyfans) or advertising / shilling front (so, ruling out most 'influencers'). Are their folks out there just running a 24h twitch channel where people can watch them fold their laundry or doomscroll the night away on a poorly illuminated couch?

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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twitch has life streams all over the place.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do they just stream their day to day life though? I've never really used twitch, but I thought it was mostly folks doing specific sessions of playing a game or drawing a picture or something, not just streaming 24/7 as they live life.

[–] onoki@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are many streamers who stream somewhat daily things. But the streamers are content creators - they interact with the viewers and choose their activities such that it is likely to be interesting to watch.

So, I'd give it a try if I was you. But probably not exactly what you are looking for.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the info! But honestly, I'm not looking to watch anyone. I just remember it being a thing people talked about in the past, and wondering if people still did it or if social media had replaced it. As a piece of culture, I find it intriguing - but I'm the sort to watch YouTube at double speed because of impatience, no way I'm sitting through any sort of stream, let alone a pointless one.