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[โ€“] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Make the live streams cheap and easily accessible

non-starter for corporations.

[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yep. This is why I will never pay them anything, ever. Their business model is incompatible with value or sustainability. They will only ever achieve quality for a brief moment in time, to acquire funding and customers, then they will rape you to death and tell you they had no choice.

The radically communist belief that checks notes sports shouldn't be for profit

[โ€“] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

may want to check out retrovibed and in particular this post. full disclosure: I'm trying to bootstrap it as a nonprofit for this exact reason, its getting ready for public alpha release.

Cheap? Easy? Are we running a corporation or what?๐Ÿ˜‚