Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O
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I mean this just isn't true though, the big servers are more efficient. Scale means efficiency.
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The fediverse is also just more inefficient than a centralized service. Part of this is due to the design of activitypub, but part of it is the inherent inefficiency of any decentralized service compared to a centralized one
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Also this doesn't happen in practice, most fediverse accounts are on servers running on rented cloud services, not people's homelabs