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Junk content costs real money because it lives in the database

Block storage is disk storage is expensive. And these are, remember, you got to remember these are these, these podcasts, these junk podcasts are going into the database.

Episode 248: Thingamajigger (episode page, opens in a new tab) January 23, 2026, 2:13 p.m. CT 01:19:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

If the Index gets swamped with junk podcasts, it has to play self-defense to keep it from costing real money. 'Storage is cheap' is true of object storage, not block storage. Junk feeds don't sit somewhere for a fraction of a cent; they go into the database, which only ever expands in CPU cycles and storage.