Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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I wonder if the fediverse is worse for the planet than Twitter was? Surely a few massive data centers use less water and power than thousands of servers spread out all over the place, right? Not to mention the extra internet traffic, content and infrastructure duplication etc. If we really care about the environment, shouldn’t we be championing massive centralization?

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MostlyBlindGamer @MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space

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@fastfinge a lot of centralized infrastructure is on the edge. I notice this when I watch a Nebula video from a few years ago: it takes multiple seconds to load, because it’s not cached at whatever node is closest to me. On YouTube it would start playing instantly because they have much bigger edge infrastructure.

I wouldn’t make any blanket statements on which alternative is better or worse, but I think it’s worth noting that some of our decentralization and federation is roughly equivalent to caching, edge processing and all that fun CDN and even loaf balancing stuff.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

1y

@MostlyBlindGamer Loaf balancing? I assume this has something to do with cat pictures. lol jk

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MostlyBlindGamer @MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space

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@fastfinge it does, yes. This site will make it clear:

http.cat

I wish it was accessible, but I think it’s worth throwing an image description generator at.

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