Post #1417678
2026-04-18 15:50 UTC
@UlrikeHahn interesting question: my first instinct was to think about how can video CDNs be deduplicated while staying decentralised/resilient, as video is really the main factor here, text (whatever format) is just so much smaller in size
looked into it, then i saw this claim from the IEA: "Based on average viewing habits, my updated analysis shows that viewing devices account for the majority of energy use (72%), followed by data transmission (23%) and data centres (5%). "
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@laurenshof@indieweb.social 2026-04-18 15:52
@UlrikeHahn if thats true (no idea, this was just quick searching) than the main contributor to energy usage is actually not video CDNs, but devices that do autoscroll videos. so if youd want to optimise for lower carbon footprints youd want a protocol that either deprioritises the possibility to have autoscroll video, or has a flexible frontend/client layer that allows people to select clients that dont use autoscroll for video