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.