Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months agoHow about we do it because it makes us feel good, morally? How about we do it because we want to set a good example?
This whole “I won’t change until those who are worse than me change,” is so juvenile to me.
halm@leminal.space 2 months ago
No, I agree. It’s not about waiting out the bigger players. It’s making sure that everybody does their part!
The fediverse has its footprint for sure and it’s great that we pull together to minimise that. I just want to put it in perspective at the same time and point out that federated services aren’t the only, or even biggest offenders here.
Many of the hotshot technologies — cryptocurrencies a few years back, this season it’s “AI” — get launched without a thought of their environmental impacts, at a time where basically every MWh counts. I want to help with my fedi usage, but I also want that to be reflected in idiots’ bitcoin mining or GPT generated “content”.
There has to be proportional balance.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Given all of that, I’d say it’s a good thing to get active and accuse these big environmental crooks, while at the same time being perfect examples of how to minimize our own footprint. Nobody will listen to accusations from someone who isn’t perfectly innocent themselves.