Owncast
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Owncast is your self-hosted live streaming solution.

Just learned some wonderful news: Owncast, an open-source self-hosted live video and web chat server, is coming to the Fediverse via a NLnet NGIZero grant 🎉

Some of the ways they’ll federate:

  • Follow owncast instances and receive notifications.

  • Interop with #peertube so content shows in the UI, maybe searchable too.

  • Build highly customizable directories and communities around owncast instances.

Read more about it on Gabe Kangas blog in An Exciting Update about Owncast.

So I very happily added Owncast to the Activitypub Application Watchlist this morning 😃

  • freely
    4·
    4 years ago

    Does Peertube’s livstreaming not compare? I tried finding a Peertube stream once but no one was live so no idea how good it is.

    • Tmpod
      5·
      4 years ago

      I tried streaming to a couple of friends and it was nice. A bit of delay and no chat, but worked well.

      • freely
        2·
        4 years ago

        Oh I had no idea Peertube was missing chat. That’s a bummer.

        • mcduquesne
          4·
          4 years ago

          PeerTube has had a very nice chat plug-in for some time now.