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1. Nohemi ❦ (_nohemi_sofia_@koyu.space)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 22:59:59 CEST Nohemi ❦

   • FediTips

   @feditips Some time ago I asked a question about the environmental impact of fediverse, including of course Mastodon, and although I did not get an answer on that moment, one of my main doubts was if the blockchain was used. This clarification reassures me.

   • FediTips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 23-May-2022 22:59:56 CEST FediTips

     in reply to

     • GreenFediverse 💚✊

     @_Nohemi_Sofia_

     Yeah, there's no blockchain or artificial scarcity or mining or anything like that here.

     Fediverse (including Mastodon) is all traditional servers with owners who want to keep their electricity bills as low as possible, so they are incentivised to reduce energy use rather than expand it.

     There will still be an impact from any kind of server, but on traditional servers it's not artificially high. No one is incentivised to waste energy on the Fediverse or Mastodon.

     There's a project called @greenfediverse which is trying to encourage people to move to servers powered by renewable energy, that might be worth checking out too?

     Mercè repeated this.
   • ashfurrow@mastodon.technology's status on Monday, 23-May-2022 22:59:56 CEST ashfurrow

     in reply to

     • FediTips

     @feditips @_Nohemi_Sofia_ Mastodon also does a lot less computing work than commercial social networks. There are no algorithms analyzing user behaviour or trying to optimize advertisement sales. So there’s some energy savings there.