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Anyone still live-streaming their life like oldschool webcams? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in the early days of the internet, there were a bunch of webcams anyone could view - sometimes a street, sometimes the coffee machine of a lab, and, occasionally, someone's bedroom or appartment. Although they were much talked about, I'm sure it was a tiny number of people, and probably not for very long. And because of crappy bandwidth, most of these cams were more like constantly updating image, rather than actual video. Tbh, maybe it's not even a real thing, but I definitely remember it being spoken about.

Nowadays obviously things are great for people who want strangers to know what they're up to, they've got countless media to choose from. And 'watching a stranger do mundane things' was packaged up and sold as reality TV a long time ago.

But I guess my question is, are there people still live-streaming their life - without it being a sex thing (like onlyfans) or advertising / shilling front (so, ruling out most 'influencers'). Are their folks out there just running a 24h twitch channel where people can watch them fold their laundry or doomscroll the night away on a poorly illuminated couch?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're probably looking for something like Opentopia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good to know webcams are still a thing! Although mostly that site seems to be outdoor cameras and a 'adult' section, not someone turning their life into the Truman Show.

And just for clarity, this isn't something I'm searching for (I'm way on the other end of the attention spectrum from people who want to watch someone do nothing). I'm more just curious about if it's a thing, and why people would want to stream or watch something like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

that site is cameras found by crawling the web with something like a search engine. they are exposed accidentally. the adult section is an ad