Hey uh, I'm starting to see "accusing some tech you don't like of being environmentally wasteful despite not having done the work to analyze or contextualize its actual environmental impact" becoming a trend, particularly with things where the impact is not actually obvious.
Can we all collectively nip that in the bud before it becomes a widespread thing please? It's just a different form of greenwashing; misusing climate rhetoric to shit on something you just don't *like* (and frequently upholding some personal favourite in its stead).
(To state the obvious: this isn't about cryptocurrency. PoW is obviously bad. I'm talking about shit like "language X is bad for the environment, use C instead", "Mastodon is bad for the environment because of the many instances", etc.)
@joepie91 I've yet to see an energy consumption comparison that shows any context at all.
Doing software no one needs, endlessly duplicated to get the 9s nobody needs and low latency for all the world that no one needs, but it's written in Rust and thus at least those thousand servers take 40% less energy.