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  • Google CO2 emissions were 1.5 MTo in 2010. By 2018 they were 13 MTo. In 2023 they were 14 MTo.

    I’m sorry but there’s more to the story that what’s being told in the article. For starters any dataset that takes 2019/2020 as their base line is skewed, we all know what happened that year.

    And, on the other hand, Google emissions increased by almost a 1000% in ten years before AI.

    Truth is more important than that agenda or the dogma. That article does the wild assumption that a big share of the increase in electricity usage is because AI. It may be, or it may not be, but the article presents zero evidences for that claim. And data in hand we know that google can use a ton of electricity without AI. So the impact of AI may or may not be as big as portrayed by the article. And it also disregards completely the massive increases in google emissions before 2019.











  • I love the fediverse.

    But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

    Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it’s true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

    I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of “instance wars”. I don’t think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

    I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

    I think the “ultimate” internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

    There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it’s state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that’s not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.