James Cridland on Nostr: nprofile1q…fc9mp nprofile1q…4x759 In many parts of the world, mobile data is the ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9ecj9zpqxlpvd2e375mh6xdm6q6rv327ps74xycyasx0ghdpp2vsafc9mp (nprofile…c9mp) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq98t8kgwqas59rvmnghzcdn6krzhxhpkyt2mt53e4g9sdnj74sszsv4x759 (nprofile…x759) In many parts of the world, mobile data is the only connection people have. There's no downloading over unlimited wifi in many parts of India or Africa.
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2021/how-to-get-another-billion-podcast-listeners/ is a long blog post about the cost of podcasts for listeners in many parts of the world, and what we might want to do about it. It's trivial to make low-bitrate versions of audio files.
MP3, Opus and AAC are all playable while downloading, incidentally (sometimes incorrectly called "streaming", which it isn't).
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2021/how-to-get-another-billion-podcast-listeners/ is a long blog post about the cost of podcasts for listeners in many parts of the world, and what we might want to do about it. It's trivial to make low-bitrate versions of audio files.
MP3, Opus and AAC are all playable while downloading, incidentally (sometimes incorrectly called "streaming", which it isn't).