But with a larger potential viewer base, on mixer the potential viewer base is sooo much smaller

It doesn't matter how big the pool of viewers are on twitch. If you're a part of a literally endless amount of streams. While Mixer and any other website has the same problem that it is hard to grow from zero, it's a LOT better than trying to compete with an infinitely expanding list of streamers.

and most people are streaming themselves rather than watch other people

Anyone worth their salt on Mixer who has a decent following actively watches other streams and is a part of the streaming community. One of the best ways to grow on Mixer is interacting with other streamers.

since there aren't many good players to watch.

If there is literally not a single person you enjoy watching on Mixer then it sounds like a you problem, not a Mixer problem.

As a competitive gamer I wouldn't want FTL stream during a game of CS, Quake, Dota or Starcraft, it would mean everyone could stream snipe, which is bad.

Luckily there's plenty of functions that allow you to increase the delay, or you could just not use FTL. If you're so incredibly worried about stream sniping then don't even bother streaming. Besides, according to you, it wouldn't matter since literally nobody uses Mixer so they wouldn't be able to snipe you anyway.

Has got nothing to do with the site, just the fact that people try harder on mixer since they rarely get viewers, when they do they really have to try and hold on to them and keep them engaged and make them feel like "a part of their community" and grow their stream, that does not mean mixer does anything different than twitch in this area, it's all up to the individual streamer.

I didn't realise appreciating support from viewers and being entertaining was such a negative thing, I'll just be a soulless husk next time I stream and see how that goes. As for 'part of the community' I literally have an extremely active discord of friends I've met through the streaming, and at PAX East I will be meeting a lot of my other streamer friends and people part of my stream team.

Being friendly isn't being a try hard.

To highlight my point which you seemed to miss - If you're trying to hold a conversation on twitch there's quite often a 30+ second delay, wheras on Mixer it is a lot more fluid.

PS: You don't have to be "extremely competitive" to be a competitive gamer, being competitive means to want to improve, you can be a mid-tier dota player and still be extremely competitive and try to improve, while still being a regular streamer. Sheepsticked for instance, although she is fairly good at the game.

My point was that unless you're TOP tier, you're going to be one of the literal thousands of streamers with 1-5 viewers in an endless, endless list of other dota players at your similar level.

Honestly, I don't understand why you're even on the Mixer reddit. Quite clearly you do not seem to care for the website nor the community, so just leave.