One of the strangest things about Twitch is that community building is a social site that doesn't offer much incentive. Because part of this is obviously a place for broadcasting, a one-to-many application. The other half of this site is the feeling that the social features present on the site are mostly geared towards community growth. around Daishin Broadcasting Company Between A little strange!
During this pandemic flu, I knew I wanted more sociality from Twitch. The platform currently offers a shrunken friend-request feature that feels like an artifact from the era of Myspace and the (Recommended Small Community) tab on the homepage, but it's not enough. Perhaps it's because you've started a lot more streaming personally while keeping regular broadcast schedules. This seems like a good way for me to be social! So it is becoming much more important to me. Also, I started to actively seek out small communities like me and introduce my community. I want to be friends with flags with different ideas! And I found it hard.
Twitch has some features that support it. Besides friend requests, there are raids and hosts, one of the most powerful features on the platform. Raids occur when a streamer who finishes a broadcast sends a viewer to another streamer. It's a really great tool to discover. On the other hand, hosts allow streamers to play live channels on their own channels when offline. This is a great way to promote your channel. They definitely help. I've been raiding as part of a stream recently as a way to build a community on multiple channels and it worked. Our community introduced other flags that I am enjoying. But it is very fragmentary.
The other day, I sent a message to my friend Curie about everything. (Indeed, I think I met her as a raid.) She said I was thinking wrong-Twitch said it's a kind of free market that keeps the illusion that if you are hard enough you can come to the top. She said the community and coalition buildings are just the opposite of him and put things in perspective. Viewers can't actually see multiple channels at once. (Personally, it's a multi-stream drift, i.e. it often turns back and forth between friends' channels) Do To build a community, you need to be very careful about when to stream. If a channel other than me shares the viewer pool and streams at the same time, you need to choose one channel that people in the same group will support.
And such support (view) means a lot on Twitch. If you score enough, you'll get a purple check mark and partnership, so it's one of the most prominent success indicators on the site. This is not to say that this kind of counter streaming limits the audience's choice or ability to do things. However, concurrency is the most important metric on Twitch, and the more hits, the higher the site algorithm will rank channels in search. (In most cases) One of the most important mechanisms to drive audience engagement on Twitch is actually an off-platform in the form of streamer Discords, where viewers find each other and start building their own community.
When I first started streaming on Twitch, I was fortunate enough to make some friends who were on the site and guide me on what not to do. It was helpful and friendly, and I started streaming two friends from late morning to late morning. Like anything I did for the first time, my hair was big. As I looked after two explorers, I felt like I was discovering a whole new world. What I'm trying to say is I want to regain that feeling, a feeling that there is so much more to discover.