Cable vs streaming tech? - Lemmy.World
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I’ve never known cable providers of failures to broadcast live TV in its history. MASH (not live) amongst many others had 70-100+ million viewers, many shows had 80%+ of the entire nation viewing something on its network without issue. I’ve never seen buffering on a Superbowl show. Why do streaming services suffer compared to cable television when too many people watch at the same time? What’s the technical difficulty of a network that has improved over time but can’t keep up with numbers from decades ago for live television? I hate ad based cable television but never had issues with it growing up. Why can’t current ‘tech’ meet the same needs we seemed to have solved long ago? Just curious about what changed in data transmission that made it more difficult for the majority of people to watch the same thing at the same time.
  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The Lemmy code is so weird sometimes.

    I recently blocked asklemmy because I get annoyed by all the stupid hypothetical questions. If I click this link, I can see the post, but I can’t see any of the comments.

    I don’t want that community in my “all” feed, but if I click on an unknown link and can see the post, why can’t I also see the comments? Seems like a strange disconnect.

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I had the same thought. I’ll have to try the website while logged in to see what it does.

        Actually, no. The API is happily returning a post from a blocked community when I specifically ask for it. It should also return comments when I specifically ask for them. Or not return either. It shouldn’t behave two different ways.