MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Musk is undeniably just trying to run twitter into the ground at this point.English
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1 year agoThey federated with others.
They federated with others.
Yep, capitalist greed ruins everything. Which is why distributed networks run by the community are our best hope for the future.
Those fuckers would try to ruin this too, by bot attacks, by trying to cut deals with some of the admins or by running their own versions of Lemmy/Mastadon.
We as a community will have to handle whatever comes next.
This means they realize that whole search is so useless that people have to rely on reddit for actually finding something useful.
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 Reddit serves as a real world database that stores all the historical content and search engines like google make it searchable.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).