Why does this whole article feel like an advertisement?

I love this idea, this would drive up engagement from power users!

July

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 Reddit serves as a real world database that stores all the historical content and search engines like google make it searchable.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.

This means they realize that whole search is so useless that people have to rely on reddit for actually finding something useful.