I miss RPAN! I could connect with my phone and stream any time, and there would be viewers, if only a few at times. Sometimes a lot though. It was great practice playing for an audience. Lots of great feedback and interactions, helped get me through the pandemic.

What’s out there in the fediverse that’s similar, if anything?

    • Poplar?
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      I loved it :)

      I didnt care for all the musicians and would instead watch regular people doing stuff or showing off parts of their lives, and get to occasionally ask them about their interests for example.

      A chat with a tailor at work, someone showing off their farm, two random irish dudes in their living room, etc.

  • @ulkesh@beehaw.org
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    289 months ago

    As long as I can properly disable it if it ever shows up on Lemmy, then I’m all for it. Reddit made it show up in my feed no matter how many times I clicked “hide”.

    Good luck finding a solution!

  • @shrugal@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Idk if it is what you’re looking for, but there is Owncast. It’s a federated alternative to Twitch, including support for the Fediverse.

    • @pr06lefs@lemmy.mlOP
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      29 months ago

      I like their directory page. Presumably that shows current live streams from different instances. Having one place to go to see all streams seems key, casual viewers will not visit lots of different instances looking for streams.

  • @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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    129 months ago

    You could always just live stream using Twitch or something and post a link here? Maybe create a c/RPAN for a similar effect.

    • Otter
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      79 months ago

      Probably needs a new name, or just ‘PublicAccessNetwork’

        • Dr. Bluefall
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          89 months ago

          I feel like FBS would work better

          “Fediverse Broadcast Service”

        • Tippon
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          39 months ago

          Nah, you’d want ‘Federated’ to be the first word, so that it stands out, so maybe ‘Federated Access to the Public’

          Fat has negative connotations though, so ideally you’d want to hide the ‘t’. How about FAP? That’s got no negative connotations, right?

  • Remy Rose
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    29 months ago

    Omg yessss, this would be amazing to bring back!

  • hitagi (ani.social)
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    19 months ago

    It might be pretty expensive to host something like that. Video encoding can get really expensive. I enjoyed RPAN’s brief stay though.