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[https://chaos.social/@greenfediverse GreenFediverse] is an open project to empower the [[Fediverse]] to run on servers with renewable energy and creating awareness for a sustainable development of it. GreenFediverse provides a critical list about servers and their renewable energy consumption status in a [https://greenfediverse.frama.io/green-instances/ Green Instances List]

'''A brief history:'''

The project emerged from discussions in Fediverse. The conversations were about digitization, environmental sustainability of social networks, data centers and energy consumption. It started in 03/2019 with the mastodon-account: [https://chaos.social/@greenfediverse GreenFediverse]. In the beginning the community around the project created some manually edited lists: [https://lite.framacalc.org/greenfediverse-instances Old Instances List] and a [https://lite.framacalc.org/green-webhosting Green Webhoster List]. In 2020 [https://mastodon.social/@attac_hl @attac_hl] worked on the technical realization of a [https://greenfediverse.frama.io/green-instances/ new Green Instances List] and combined the databases from <nowiki>http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon</nowiki> (dead link) and the [https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-feed/ GreenWebFoundation]. You can find the code in the [https://framagit.org/greenfediverse repository] of the project. In 2021 and thanks to [https://digitalcourage.social/@aligyie @aligyie], a new subjective [https://lite.framacalc.org/green-webhost-ranking Green Webhost Ranking] was created. In May, the project updated the list of green instances and the information collected by the community about various web hosts.

'''Why are we doing this?'''