Shosho let's you view and create streams & video. Like YouTube crushed video on the Internet by being focused on one thing and doing it well, vs having everything in the Facebook app. There examples going both ways, it is hard to say what will win.
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Not like anything I say should matter, but it's important that modularity outcompetes or is, at least, comparable in the short term, so monolithic apps are less likely to create capture via complexity & obscurity. The whole ux sucks if you can't figure out how to leave when you want to.
This. One app that does everything obscures Nostr's greatest attribute, the fact that your identity is portable across any part of the ecosystem. That is Nostr's killer app.
I agree with you guys on everything else but how dumb is it that you can view the livestream but not start one from within the app ? Thatβs all Iβm saying lmaooo
Itβs pretty hard to refute that, itβs just completing a half baked feature lol
I'm not sure how big of a difference it would make honestly. The sizable majority of users aren't creators, but consumers & lurkers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
(This is backed up by my own experience here on Nostr. Any post that gets really popular, in the triple digits for likes, dozens of reposts, and big zaps, has thousands of views. Most people are lurkers, they don't comment or interact at all.)
It's a feature that a small percentage would ever use, and the effort might be better focused on making consumption better for the 99% who will be watching the videos. I wonder what percentage of users on twitch & YouTube use the built in streaming option vs something like OBS?
What Nostr truly lacks is documentation. For instance here is what twitch has for new creators.
https://www.twitch.tv/creatorcamp/en/
A list of the software that can be used to steam to twitch.
https://dashboard.twitch.tv/broadcast
It's a pretty amazing resource that covers how to steam, how monetization works, tips for engaging & retaining an audience, etc. Nostr lacks stuff like this and it is vitally important.
Apparently I was wrong you can livestream from primal using a premium membership on primal studio