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1 year agoThis is amazing, thank you! I really appreciate the effort that the lemmy admins are making to cater to various users.
This is amazing, thank you! I really appreciate the effort that the lemmy admins are making to cater to various users.
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 Reddit serves as a real world database that stores all the historical content and search engines like google make it searchable.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).
And still equally fascinated by it