Same! 😅 huge thanks to @jonah@lemmy.one for bringing lemmy.one back online. I wasn't ready to mourn the loss of my fediverse homepage.
To be honest, I think whichever approach you take is unlikely to have a significant effect on how much energy your website uses overall.
For example, servers in datacentres are very powerful and are able to run more than one thing at once. So if you were hosting your own Lemmy/Mastodon instance, there'd be no reason why you couldn't also host a standalone website on that same server. The difference in energy usage would be negligible.
In contrast, you could argue that Lemmy is less efficient than a straightforward static website because the content of your blog posts will inevitably end up being federated to many other instances. That means multiple copies of your blog will be transferred between multiple servers and stored on multiple hard drives, etc. Whereas a static website lives in one place and doesn't end up using so many resources.
At the end of the day, whichever you choose will likely have very little impact. So I wouldn't worry too much about your blog's green credentials.
I'm saying this as somebody who is pro protecting the environment, but also pro prioritising our efforts in the places they'll have greatest impact. You'll probably have a bigger impact by walking to the store instead of driving.
What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.
Who are these people that will fund a social network, with no expectations of a return on that investment, so that people can fill it up with memes and porn for free?
I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.
For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.
And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.
I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don't think it's accurate to say that the average user isn't going to come up across these differences.
There are several eras of the web.
I think Lemmy feels very much of the "Web 2.0" era, which came about in the mid-to-late naughties. When MySpace and Facebook and blogging were all the rage.
So not the same "old web" era as Windows 98. If that makes sense!
This is where I have to give credit to modern WiFi routers and mesh access points.
The ones I've owned most recently allow you to switch off the LED lights in the admin control panel. I can even set them on a schedule if I want them on during the day (to indicate status) and off at night (so I can sleep).
Much better than old routers which used to flash whenever data was being broadcast.
Really? I've been using it for a while and haven't noticed tracking.
What sorts of tracking have you seen them engage in?
They display ads in search results, which they presumably do need to track clicks for. But you can literally just switch the ads off in the settings. And then you'll never see them again. They're on by default, but not mandatory.
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