Are you a streamer? Are you into Emojis? Do you want your community to engage more in your chat? Then say no more, you’re right here! In this post I’ll show you the awesome F(L)OSS project called emojiwall. In a nutshell, it’s a fun enhancement for your stream, constantly having a look for emojis in chat messages. When a new message with emojis comes in, it extracts the emojis and makes them fly through the stream. We’ll cover how to configure it using smol.stream, and talk about how to host your own emojiwall, as well as some best-practices tips & ticks and some hacks. 🤯🎪🚶🏗️❣️👯‍♂️🛢️🎵🈚🛫🐲🎂😺🐝🍖🍦🧟‍♀️☺️🎩⛰️👔🎢🧡🧜‍♀️🏓♑👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🤩🌭🕥🙆‍♀️💬🏊‍♂️😌♿🅱️🎙️🧘‍♂️💟♀️🥛*️⃣🔔👠👨‍👩‍👦🌀🎫🕹️👷‍♀️👱‍♀️🚺

We’re getting closer and closer to Christmas. So close, that one can already smell cookies 🍪 and the scent of the Christmas tree 🎄 in the living room. It’s the time where we’re supposed to calm down and just enjoy the time with our family and loved ones. Yet here we are stressing ourselves out, often for absolutely no reason at all. But, as always, Jntktn.TV got your back. The crew prepared a super awesome X-MAS Special just for you, so you can lean back and just enjoy the show. The lovely streamers of Jnktn will be live for you on Saturday the 18th of December for a total of 13 (!!!) hours. Come for the music, stay for the awesome people, and forget about the “business as usual” for a moment.

When you’re searching for ways to live-stream / broadcast something to the world, you’ll most likely land at the usual suspects - services like YouTube and Twitch. Well, those might be great, but you know what’s even greater? Right, self-hosting your own broadcasting platform. Luckily there is an awesome F(L)OSS project called Owncast that does the heavy lifting for you. Owncast is a privacy-friendly drop-in replacement for services such as Twitch. Owncast finds a wide adoption throughout streamers already, because only YOU own and control the content. In this article I’ll show you how you can host your own Owncast-instance in just a few simple steps, containerized on any operating system that supports either podman or docker.

I was 15 years old when I first played my music on a small Austrian web radio called beatnight.at. All I had back then, was a Reloop Digital Jockey 2 and VirtualDJ to mix music. I’ll have to admit, that the DJ sets back then weren’t really professional, however this experience sparked my interest in (web-)radio stations. Since the beginning of June 2021, I’m a member of the Jnktn.TV Team and I’ll be streaming on Saturdays on a bi-weekly basis. My show is called Dance Attack with Ruffy, and - as the name implies - it’s all about dance music. I’ll mix the latest and the best songs out of House, Electro, Dance, Hands Up, Hardstyle and Hardcore live for you.

Listening to your favorite song is as easy as going to YouTube (or even better Invidious), Soundcloud or Spotify and stream everything right from your PC or mobile device. Millions of artists and tracks are just waiting for you to discover them. However, streaming is not necessarily the best choice for you and here’s why. Simply put, you don’t own any of the content that you are streaming, and you have no guarantee that the song you liked today will still be there tomorrow. You have no say in how those platforms handle copyright, DMCA-takedowns or Content-ID. Remember back in the 2000s, when you went to the store and purchased an album on CD? As long as you owned the CD, you also owned the content, and nobody was able to take it away from you again (unless you became yet another victim of disc rot). In this article we’ll be utilizing youtube-dl (and/or yt-dlp) to get back to the good ol’ days when we had full ownership of the media we are consuming, without losing the comforts and convenience of such streaming-sites.