Many institutions are committed to
#sustainability.
For this reason alone,
#digitalsovereignty should be important to them.
Two years ago, scientists from
@JLBe@mastodon.social and its network published a study on the sustainable use of
#smartphones.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2995
It showed that typical
#socialmedia apps such as
#Instagram,
#TikTok,
#YouTube, etc. on
#cellphones conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high
#energy consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in
#datacenters and transmission networks. A large proportion of the
#electricity consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect
#privacy and data protection, but instead spy on users.
The use of
#Mastodon and other
#Fediverse services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.
