Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
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Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#2Never heard of kick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(service) doesn't seem bad on first glance unless you REALLY hate a streamer enough to say the whole platform sucks.
>There's nothing wrong with it. Twitch promotes sexual content/channels to children and this project is perfectly okay with that because it reinforces to young boys that women are worth nothing more than what they charge for their OF subscription and to young girls that they can make money really easily by using this lovely free software. If that was actually considered detestable or vile then the project would obviously remove Twitch from the services.json file. This project empowers women to take their shirts off and stream on Twitch with only a few clicks!
Pretty funny.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#3Just a bunch of kids in the github comments arguing with each other.
A project has every right to decide how it's ran or how it works - it must. The project maintainers can very well just say "we don't like this service because it starts with a K", or because there's a conflict with their project sponsors. One of the 'rewards' for maintaining a project (especially on the size of OBS) is to make opinionated decisions like this.
I presume OBS supports streaming to generic RTMP endpoints, so it can still be used to stream to whatever service they want. Or, people (or even the company themselves!) are welcome to fork the project and support whatever projects they want.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#4Well that’s a bit surprising.
I’d never heard of Kick … and several actually explicit adult sites are in the service.json file…
This feels like it might be a bit of an overreaction… but I dunno. I’m not about to expose myself to any site like Twitxh/Kick/YouTube right before bed…. It’s not good for my sleep quality… so I’m not really in a position to judge anything about Kick.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#5Key question from the comments on GitHub:
"Are you sure this doesn't have anything to do with OBS being sponsored by YouTube and Twitch?"
I would like to know what influence these entities wield on OBS.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#6Just a bunch of kids in the github comments arguing with each other. A project has every right to decide how it's ran or how it works - it must. The project maintainers can very well just say "we don't like this service because it starts with a K", or because there's a conflict with their project sponsors. One of the 'rewards' for maintaining a project (especially on the size of OBS) is to make opinionated decisions…
I'd hope the average Github user wouldn't take the time of day from an HN comment section.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#7Just a bunch of kids in the github comments arguing with each other. A project has every right to decide how it's ran or how it works - it must. The project maintainers can very well just say "we don't like this service because it starts with a K", or because there's a conflict with their project sponsors. One of the 'rewards' for maintaining a project (especially on the size of OBS) is to make opinionated decisions…
I'd hope the average Github user wouldn't take the time of day from an HN comment section.
They’d detest anything resembling an intellectual conversation. Much like Reddit.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#8The title here should be different, as is it tends to encourage flaming.
I don't like that the first amendment is no longer enough because power to abridge speech in the "public square" is now given to corporations who bend to the public opinion of a small mob (mostly bored suburbanite youth) and advertisers. It's the Internet, can I make a dirty joke and say "fuck"? Apparently not. People are considerably more repressed than they were a couple of decades ago and they're cheering for it?
If content is so bad that it ought to be illegal, make it so and have the punishment go through actual law enforcement.
Then again a platform making money from its content producers does have some responsibility to be selective.
That doesn't at all extend to OBS Studio though.
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#9How absurd.
Kick is a platform. It isn't kiwifarms, it isn't 8ch. Further, I think it would be more defensible to lock out Kick (not defensible, but more defensible) if twitch had any other real competition in the live streaming space.
An open source project locking out platforms for allowing freer speech than twitch is shameful. It's embarrassing.
I agree there should be a consideration of where OBS funding comes from, and if I were Kick I'd support a maintainer of an OBS fork.
Re: Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
#10Never heard of kick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_(service) doesn't seem bad on first glance unless you REALLY hate a streamer enough to say the whole platform sucks. >There's nothing wrong with it. Twitch promotes sexual content/channels to children and this project is perfectly okay with that because it reinforces to young boys that women are worth nothing more than what they charge for their OF subscription…
from a zero day GH account with no contributions to anything