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Why not being the first decentralized social network that runs on renewable energy? Sounds utopian, but we do it anyway! | Why not being the first decentralized social network that runs on renewable energy? Sounds utopian, but we do it anyway! | ||
The project emerged from discussions in Fediverse in 2019. The discussions focused on digitization, climate change, the environmental sustainability of social networks, data centers and their energy consumption. It all started in | The project emerged from discussions in Fediverse in 2019. The discussions focused on digitization, climate change, the environmental sustainability of social networks, data centers and their energy consumption. It all 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 [https://chaos.social/@moagee moagee]'s idea of a [https://greenfediverse.frama.io/green-instances/ new green instances list] and combined the databases from [https://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/ Mastostats] and The [https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-feed/ GreenWebFoundation] for the first time. In 2021 [https://digitalcourage.social/@aligyie @aligyie], created a [https://lite.framacalc.org/green-webhost-ranking green webhost ranking] which is still in use. In 05/2022 the fediverse instances database changed again, from [https://the-federation.info/ the-federation.info] to [https://nodes.fediverse.party/ nodes.fediverse.party] provided by [https://functional.cafe/@minoru Minoru]. Since the beginning, the project has been coordinated by [https://chaos.social/@moagee @moagee].[https://digitalcourage.social/@aligyie @aligyie] and [https://chaos.social/@moagee @moagee] are still working on the project, coding with contributors from the fediverse community or researching and filling the database with additional information. | ||
==Why are we doing this?== | ==Why are we doing this?== | ||
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While building up our own database we would like to get more knowledge by critical research and make it available to everyone. This relates very specifically to knowledge about the energy use of server operators. Through our script we already receive a first status of all registered Fediverse instances from the GreenWebFoundation. However, since we had to realize that not all companies and server operators are transparent with a statement about the use of renewable energy and partly even do greenwashing, we would like to complement this status with a qualitative and transparent research. This information collected by the community is for each server operator, technically all domain names, AS numbers or IP addresses are collected and added to the list. | While building up our own database we would like to get more knowledge by critical research and make it available to everyone. This relates very specifically to knowledge about the energy use of server operators. Through our script we already receive a first status of all registered Fediverse instances from the GreenWebFoundation. However, since we had to realize that not all companies and server operators are transparent with a statement about the use of renewable energy and partly even do greenwashing, we would like to complement this status with a qualitative and transparent research. This information collected by the community is for each server operator, technically all domain names, AS numbers or IP addresses are collected and added to the list. | ||
For this purpose [https://digitalcourage.social/@aligyie | For this purpose [https://digitalcourage.social/@aligyie @aligyie] already collected a lot of information and put it together in a self-made [https://lite.framacalc.org/green-webhost-ranking ranking]. After research and investigation, we will have a lot of information that we systematically add to the database. We collect these information about single hosting services and data centers and their use of renewable energy in separate .md or .html - files. In these text files the collective research is structured and written in text, where we will offer links to information pages and certificate-files. | ||
So we have several options to work with: | So we have several options to work with: | ||