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I love the idea of decentralised apps for freedom of thought and privacy reasons. One quibble with this claim: "with no server running 24/7 just to sync the da
by kwijibob 4y ago
I love the idea of decentralised apps for freedom of thought and privacy reasons.
One quibble with this claim: "with no server running 24/7 just to sync the data every once in a while, you avoid the production of the server in the first place and the energy it consumes when running."
Has anyone done any studies on this?
I personally wonder if a million book authors using Google Docs online on Chromebooks is going to be more energy efficient than a million local PC's running Libreoffice on Ubuntu?
- ladyanita22 4y agoNo, because in reality you'd be comparing one million local PC's running libreoffice vs one million PC's running Chrome+frontend and one server running the backend
- eptcyka 4y agoOne server? More like 20 back end servers, some load balancers, and 3 availability zones times 2 data centers at the very least.
- tadfisher 4y agoA significant chunk of that data and traffic will move to IMAP servers, and those resources will be multiplied by replicating a CRDT via email.