Don't waste resources polling dead feeds
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it's a complete waste of time, money, bandwidth, everything to be pulling 2 million feeds, when only a third of them are actually posting content.
Episode 30: with a digital abolitionists plant that flag while we still (approx., from transcript intro) 00:22:26 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Only about a third of the 2 million known podcasts still publish. Dave says polling them all equally wastes time, money and bandwidth. The Index's aggregators back off when a feed stops posting. If a show that's been silent for six months takes a day to pick up a new episode, that's fine; checking ramps back up once it's active.
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Episode 30: with a digital abolitionists plant that flag while we still (approx., from transcript intro) 00:20:18 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
it's really difficult to distribute to have it distributed in a way that doesn't cost you money.
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