Publish honest numbers so nobody builds on inflated ones
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I don't want that to mislead somebody into thinking that the podcast ecosystem can support a product that they may think otherwise about.
Episode 118: No Malaise (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:27:57 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave publishes Podcast Index stats that exclude junk feeds, because he sees his numbers quoted everywhere. Inflated counts (like YouTube's hours uploaded, when little is watched) could mislead someone into building a product the ecosystem can't support. He says he's the perfect person for it because he has no agenda and doesn't even care much about stats.
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Episode 109: 4 Gigs of Knitting (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
We're an index, we're supposed to be like, I want neutral data.
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Episode 118: No Malaise (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:22:39 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
to see what some actual real numbers may look like that are not, that don't, that are not influenced by somebody's agenda. Because I really have none. I don't even care that much about the about stats.
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Episode 118: No Malaise (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:23:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
And I don't like existing in a place where I think the numbers are grossly skewed in a way that I can't get my head around what's actually happening.
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