I streamed for a while, just for fun. Never tried to get popular or anything. (And I never did get popular.) Just a humble speedrunning stream. I had like one viewer who caught my stream on anything like a frequent basis. I just made conversation while I streamed. It was very chill.

All that to say, I think the issue with people is way easy for anyone who never has more than like... 4 simultaneous viewers?

Oh, I think a lot of Peertube instances support live streaming. If you wanted to ensure your viewer base stayed small (and probably that it remained more civil than the average Twitch viewer), that might be a good way to go as well.

And you're probably right that I was pretty lucky to have pretty good internet where I live. My favorite content creator/streamer doesn't stream so much any more because his ISP was shit for a good while. (His ISP was Cox and when he started dropping frames, he called it being "Cox blocked". Lol.) He's got way better internet now, and does occasionally stream, but hasn't really gotten back into the groove of streaming like he used to, and maybe doesn't want to any more.

But also, as others are saying, 360p is fine sometimes. Just depends what you're streaming.