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There are things going on that demonstrate the importance of independent, decentralized solutions for the way we use the internet for the democratic discourse and to share our ideas, dreams and hopes.

I still use but I don't want to wait until also officially makes this platform to a place where hate gets pushed and minorities have to fear discrimination.

Step by step getting into , not only for streaming, is my way of compensating. Getting a is step #1.

The last three days I spent every free minute for getting deeper into the topic I never dealt with before.
And this seems necessary as there is so much to learn, understand and troubleshoot:

After finally being able to flash the SD card for the , I had to realize that my Internet Service Provider doesn't provide me with Dual Stack. That means no individual IPv4 address, no port forwarding, no bridge mode and therefore no access to my server from the outside.

After...

...figuring out what to request specifically I reached out for my ISP and they luckily could provide me with everything I needed and even unlocked it within one hour only.

I used this telephone call to also upgrade my upload bandwidth to 50 Mbit/s, what should give me the opportunity to host some more traffic intense services on my home server and therefore don't need to outsource this to a .

It's strenuous but I am sure the resulting opportunities will be rewarding.

Things moving quickly now. 😃
Don't know how, but somehow I just managed to do a short test stream on my self hosted server.

After all the issues I had during the last days with my and my Internet Service Provider to get my server running , it was so invigorating to set up Owncast with such ease.
Thanks @owncast for the great software and the easy to follow documentation.
Didn't expect the installation being that easy. 👌

@repeatro Are you able to stream simultaneously on both Twitch and owncase?

@TheRetroSven

Haven't tested yet, but quite sure it should work.
There is a plugin for OBS that let you add additional streaming servers to stream simultaneously on them. This should work for all streaming servers that are supported by OBS.