Again, server space and app stores are the new feuds of the modern feudal lord. The sooner all that dies and we can rebuild a decentralised model, the better. It's a shame for the fond memories, however, how pathetic one's life has to be that its fond memories are on Twitch surrounded by ads for gfuel and hello fresh...

>In announcing the change, Twitch cited the "costly" indefinite storage of these highlights, which it says are responsible for "less than 0.1% of hours watched" across the site. I don't know how many hours are watched on Twitch, but I bet it's so many that 0.1% is still a fuckton of hours.

How pathetic does one need to be to only have surface experience of something before they decide to judge it and insult people over enjoying aspects of it... You're literally wasting your time on the internet belittling someone else's life.. how is that not pathetic?

It’s time to use Peertube and Owncast!

Peertube won't cut it. Those people in the article have thousands of hours of videostreams there. If you're streaming at 1080p, that will be around 1.5GB of storage per hour. 4k will be worse. So if you have 5000 hours of videos like the one guy in the article, that is a neat 7500GB or 7.5TB of video. There is no instance around that will allow you to save that amount of videos. So hosting your own instance would be the only way. Looking at Hetzner storage box, 10TB of data will cost you 25€/month or 300€/years. That is money, but should be possible to pay out of your own pocket.

Eh. The Internet is too full of useless crap thst costs energy to keep alive. No one needs endless swathes of boring videos. If there are some valuable recordings there, then they can preserve those.

It sucks but I understand the reasons. Anything of true importance to someone should have been downloaded and/or upload somewhere else as it happens.

We have all got very accustomed to the notion that we can put content on a website and it will stay there forever, permanently available, as if that site somehow has an obligation to look after it. But they don't. It sucks, and there will be a lot of stuff lost, but it's also good to have a reminder that if there's data you really care about, you need to look after that data yourself.

Another win for peertube and owncast.

Streamers can host it themselves. From what I hear around Lemmy hosting and streaming video is so cheap it can be done without money from ads

Cry me a river. It will still disappear and the overwhelming majority of people won't miss it. Next time don't rely on digital feuds to store your fond memories. Smash that subscribe button and don't forget to buy some gfuel using the code imaregard, it will make you more alert and better at your video games. Afterwards you can jump to our friend streamer who's selling shit to kids from an inflatable pool while wearing only a bikini. Such fond memories.

I've watched under an hour of twitch streams in my entire life and even I know your opinion is ignorant You made up your mind years ago after seeing a couple of shitty streamers. Did you even form the opinion yourself or was it based on a reddit thread?

it's not as easy as it sounds. The hosting on Twitch wasn't just for videos but for the chat logs synced to that video as well. So you can't just download the videos and upload them somewhere else you have to download them using Twitch's shitty tools so that you get the chat as well. That takes a lot of time but they only got about a month to do that. And that assumes that one actually has the time, energy, access and expertise to download the stuff. What about disabled streamers? What about families of deceased streamers? They now have a month to figure all this stuff out if they even receive the news at all.

I'm way more surprised that Twitch even has video storage that old. I have streamed a bit, and my videos were limited to one month? Maybe even less. Twitch was never meant for video storage, so this move is not unexpected. If you want to keep a video, download it, always. Even on Youtube you are not guaranteed to have videos forever. They still have my vid, which is almost 20 years old, nobody watches it... and it's helping no one. Which is to say we need better preservation methods for digital content.

Once again reinforcing the fact that "the cloud" is still someone else's computer. If you want control over your data, you really need to look into self hosting. Otherwise, don't be surprised when that someone else decides to change the rules for using their computer. I also can't help but think that the more the internet matures, the more the version we had in the 90's makes sense. Web 2.0 was a mistake.

The only one crying here is you, dude. Try to find joy in something less negative, maybe? Forgive whoever hurt you and move on, this is just sad.

I agree in this case but this is what they thought at the dawn of computing, too and we lost a lot of history.

Storing so many videos has a financial and ecological cost. When you reach thousands of hours of videos, it's time to ask yourself if it's really useful to keep them all.

Lol, twitch is pure cancer, the less of it exists the better. Youtube for all its flaws has redeeming qualities. Twitch is capitalising on primitive voyeurism and is another nail in the coffin of western civilisation. I look forward to the deletion.

>I've watched under an hour of twitch streams in my entire life Of course you have...