And still equally fascinated by it
MysteriousSophon21
joined 1 year ago
The biggest issue would be data retention. Reddit serves as a real world database that stores all the historical content and search engines like google make it searchable.
We're talking about petabytes, and lemmy hardly has a few gigabytes.
Who is going to store all this data, even in a distributed environment, the bigger instances would have to store a few hundred terrabytes (per year).
Signup for Testflight:
Memmy: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
Mlem: https://testflight.apple.com/join/MelFP11Y
Both match closely with Apollo and they're still being actively developed so give them some time to mature.
Why does this whole article feel like an advertisement?