anyone have any Info on Environmental impact of the #fediverse, Energy consumption compared to other sites & Apps?
are there areas where it is particularly efficient or inefficient?
is it good like it is, or is there Room for Improvement?
@radicalresilience Oh gosh, Fediverse is definitely very very inefficient. Any distributed platform has to be because it requires a ton of duplicated effort and overhead.
That's the tradeoff.
We've already seen a lot of instance admins expressing surprise that the platform takes a lot more resources than they expected, and that's just a symptom of it.
The way #ActivityPub and #Mastodon are designed they even melt down external webservers that aren't part of Fediverse. The system is just that unconcerned with conserving resources.
