@Skreamies@ItsToxyk@TheMavShow Literally nobody would be able to do it. It’s not a choice when it’s prohibitively priced. Every single streamer I watch on a daily basis would be essentially kicked off the platform by that change.
@Skreamies@ItsToxyk@TheMavShow Charging people for bandwidth would literally be financially punishing people for growing. I make a crazy amount of money and wouldn’t be able to cover all of those costs from my day job on top of living expenses. Having another job just to pay for your streaming hobby is …
@ItsToxyk@Skreamies@TheMavShow I was never advocating for a 70/30 across the board. I was saying that making small streamers pay for their own bandwidth would kill the platform
@ItsToxyk@Skreamies@TheMavShow More ads is terrible for viewers, which means overall less revenue because people stop using the service. Which I already have because of the amount of ads.
@Skreamies@ItsToxyk@TheMavShow Nobody is going to pay by the hour to stream to nobody. Period. It’s 100% out of pocket for years then. It would never become sustainable. Period.
@TheEpicNewman@ItsToxyk@TheMavShow However the large streamers can take those costs out of their profits. Small streamers would be paying to stream, and there’s no way that’s possible.
@EndTheOligarch@SpiroAgnewGhost But then they actually *do* have to allow all kinds of “free speech” (misinformation at best) because it’s government regulated