And still equally fascinated by it

This is amazing, thank you! I really appreciate the effort that the lemmy admins are making to cater to various users.

I think what they’re trying to tell you is that you can have ANY playback speed instead of the 4 options given by the built in player.

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 Reddit serves as a real world database that stores all the historical content and search engines like google make it searchable.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

They federated with others.

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.