smallpatatasApr 26, 2024

The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse

https://lemm.ee/post/30463439

The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse - lemm.ee

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.

Show threadSorteKaninApr 27, 2024

The practical suggestions sound good but the rest of the blog post makes this sound like a much bigger issue than it is, I feel.

There are simply not enough servers or activity on the Fediverse to have to worry about this at this point, if you ask me. It could for sure be better with regards to environmental concerns, but there’s a lot more pressing issues I think.

Show threadaasatruApr 27, 2024
I think it is a pretty major issue. A single-user instance shouldn't need more than 100 GB. The internet is too bloated, which is a democratic problem as well as an environmental one.
Show threadFlax
Honestly I think a single user instance should be lightweight enough to run on a Raspi. Even having multiple. A lot of them don’t need their own frontends either
Apr 27, 2024 at 2:31pmWeb