The main difference between hosting and raiding is that raiding automatically sends viewers into the raid recipient’s stream. Hosting will transfer those viewers over, however, they need to click on the stream in order to chat. There are some additional differences to note as well.
Differences Between Hosting And Raiding
While both actions can be used to share one streamer’s audience with another,raids will cause the streamer to hostthe recipient’s stream automatically. When raiding, viewers receive somechannel pointsfor participating, but many users can opt to not join the raid. Hosting does not give viewers this choice as they remain on the channel but will still view the recipient’s stream from the channel they were already on.
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Whichever one a broadcaster does is down to preference but raids are often associated withraid messages. Because hosting requires an additional click, messages are easier to send out during a raid and are usually some combination of emotes with a nice message between them.
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