I'm weirdly on board with this and I think my kids will love it.
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Others already suggested great answers, so I won't repeat them, but I let my kids play on pbskids.org . tons of fun and educational videos and games for kids if they're younger.
I am technical, but here's the installation for Owncast
curl -s https://owncast.online/install.sh | bash
https://owncast.online/quickstart/installation/
That's it. The rest is handled from a website front end like Twitch's. But yes, it's more than Twitch.
I switched. :-). People on Reddiy used to tell me no one would switch to Lemmy. Also look at Mastodon.
I also know some streamers that stream to both Twitch and their Owncast. To each their own. It's here if folks become interested. Most don't even know a self hosted option exists.
I'm not the developer, but I can pass it on if you'd like. :-D The dev reads the Steam Forums and has a Discord as well. I think it should work with Steamdeck and the touch pads, but I'm guessing the menus are going to be SUPER small and probably quite difficult to see, though I haven't tested on my Steamdeck.
Absolutely! I bounced off Songs of Syx personally, but I've played DF, Rimworld, Oni, etc. I love the look of Odd Realm personally and I had quite a few hours in it, but then the entire UI was reworked, and it seems a bit daunting to get into. There isn't a tutorial atm, but the dev and myself have put up some video tutorials to get started. I think it's unique in the colony sim genre due to the graphics, music, but also the flexibility of the UI. It's not DF deep, but the UI allows you to REALLY dig in deep to automating things if you want, or just manually queue up stuff. I think it still has some rough edges, but for $15 at the moment it's got a lot to offer.
I'm planning on streaming some more Odd Realm 1.0 to my Owncast as well if you're interested. :-)
Have fun and best of luck!
I also created some very quick and dirty tutorials for Odd Realm if anyone just wants to take a quick look at it:
Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Tutorial - Just to help folks get started - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/6crH1bx8t7USve3p4XfXU7
Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Production Tutorial - Basics of Production - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5FGjgEN1wb6G9zWLdVbUMu
Gabe, dev of Owncast, has received Cease and Desist before, but there's nothing he can do about them. Since they're not managed from one platform, best he could do is remove it from the directory, but that wouldn't stop anyone from streaming. The streamer is taking the responsibility for that.
So they could get shut down, but I don't think Owncast could.
Honestly it's probably the easiest install I've ever done. :-D Don't hesitate to ping me on Lemmy or on Matrix or where ever if you have any issues, questions, etc. :-)
Yes, my understanding of anything on the web is that it's STILL just files that are broken up and sent to you.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/video/what-is-streaming/
Streaming is the continuous transmission of audio or video files from a server to a client. In simpler terms, streaming is what happens when consumers watch TV or listen to podcasts on Internet-connected devices. With streaming, the media file being played on the client device is stored remotely, and is transmitted a few seconds at a time over the Internet.
I reserve the right to be wrong about EVERYTHING! :-D
PC Gamer is giving it a 60/100:
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/warhammer-40-000-space-marine-2-review/