Out of a certain weird interest, I wonder whether we do have any facts and figures on energy and resource consumption of the #Fediverse as per 2026, both in total and on a per-user basis? Ideas / hints, anyone? Boosts welcome.
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Als Antwort auf Kristian 🌒 • • •With 43K+ servers, and over 12 million users, on 66 (possibly more) different platforms that would be difficult to figure out. Small single user instances could be running on something as small as a Raspberry Pi, while larger instances are likely running on a cluster of servers in a data center... Gathering the stats and figuring it all out would be a massive undertaking.
FWIW - my numbers above were gathered from fedidb.com/ -- a good place to look around to get some idea of the scale of the Fediverse as a whole.
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Als Antwort auf Kristian 🌒 • • •I think, if anything, the measure of the energy consumption is something that the administrators of each instance should be handling. It's really up to them to measure this kind of information, and make a determination about the overall energy efficiency of the communication across the network.
However, that being said, if there were a group of instances that wanted to measure and publish this kind of information, it would be interesting to roll it up into a report. Call it a benchmark for the Fediverse for others to measure against.
As to the weight of Activity Pub, and its JSON structures, I can't speak to that. I haven't messed around with it enough to judge that.
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Tom
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Tom
Als Antwort auf Kristian 🌒 • • •the main server consumes about 230 Watts on average. At 840 active users, that's about 0,27 Watts per user.
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