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Now Streaming "Daily"—Yes I have more to say about my own streams. I'm living a very insular life currently. What I'm working on is my physical & mental health. I share it all openly in the off chance that it may help another & I know it may be helpful to me in the future to have a record.

I had problems with twitch. I activated YouTube streaming, which requires having the app loaded, which means I can never just click a YT link anymore unless I want ads. I have to copy/paste into Vivaldi. 1/4

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist

@RMiddleton@mastodon.art · 2 days ago

#Streaming update 2/4
If iPhone worked like a computer I could choose how I open links! Sigh so much compromise, bringing me to: I'm streaming on YouTube 😐 bc I never got accepted by a PeerTube instance for video making when I applied last year. I want the freedom to make useless streams & videos so for now that's on corpo-fascist platforms. I talk about it on the streams. Online spaces are overrun with marketing manipulations; my content is the equivalent of reclaiming park grass for lazing.

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist

@RMiddleton@mastodon.art · 2 days ago

What kind of weirdo are you? I'm a weirdo among the weirdos. I'm on fedi but my brain does not grasp tech complexity. I've made my own websites for decades but I do it the most cumbersome way possible, typing & often copy/pasting html by hand, usually failing over & over many times before compromising & getting it sort of so-so. I feel like I could learn static site management via terminal & git but so far every learning attempt leads to a dead end. Same goes with getting streams to embed.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist

@RMiddleton@mastodon.art · 2 days ago

I just failed at embedding my YouTube channel or live streams into my own site. When I fail in one area I go back to trying another. Next I'll look at fedi options again. In the meantime I'm streaming daily at https://www.youtube.com/@humanissome/streams

Someday I'll stream onto my own URL, either hosted or embedded, & I won't use corpo sites except to promote exodus, & I'll be able to stream from my phone or computer—only then will I embrace building community via #streaming. Until then, it's directionless.

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human is some

Reflections on the meaning of human existence and such frivolity. No one has all the answers but everyone has some. And human is some. Channel maintained by Rob Middleton, abstract artist located in Jacksonville, FL. https://www.RMiddleton.art to see paintings, other videos, and Humanism t-shirts. https://www.patreon.com/rmiddleton to enable me to spend more time on content like this and make it better.

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist

@RMiddleton@mastodon.art · 2 days ago

Questions for fedi streamers
1. Are you able to stream from your phone?
2. Do you ever encounter copyright problems? I see fedi links to music streamers. I'd love to be able to make art while listening to music sometimes. The way it works on twitch is it plays once & is then delisted. On YouTube it's muted or unavailable in some regions. I don't mind #streaming music the twitch way, going out live & not being replayed.
3. Do you save your streams?

#askfedi #fedihelp #peertube #owncast

Nervensäge 💐

@Irisfreundin@troet.cafe · 2 days ago

@RMiddleton I don't have a smartphone, just a small telephone.