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The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse (thedabbler.patatas.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Fediverse - especially the microblogging side of it - has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability.

And the high resource requirements, which result from an incredible level of redundancy, aren't just bad environmentally: they make running a server more costly, and increase our reliance on Big Tech's infrastructure.

I wrote about all this, along with some suggestions for how we can improve things somewhat.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's my intuition too. Would like to see sources to back it up though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well this site says that the bitcoin network uses at least 91 TWh annually.

According to fediverse.observer, there's roughly 21000 Fediverse servers online.

Let's just assume that a server on the Fediverse uses 500W. That's quite a high estimate btw, but we can overestimate, it's fine.

That gives roughly 0.09 TWh annually, or about 0.1% of the bitcoin network. And remember that's an overestimate and remember that that only considers bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

👍 That confirms my own assumptions, thanks for the link and estimated comparison!