this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
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I'd like to be able to follow users and communities so I'm looking to switch to kbin. Are there any instances that use green energy?

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[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not a direct answer to your question but slrpnk.net has green energy on the roadmap.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Actually better than that: I already have the batteries and the inverter and just need to get some solar panels to install (next year sometime) and then it will run almost completely on locally produced renewable energy.

Right now it is still on local grid power, but that is mostly geothermal and wind (at least 60% on average).

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago
[–] Antitoxic9087@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nice! Just out of curiosity: is there currently anyway to prove the use of renewable electricity to the public without revealing sensitive personal data?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Many professional hosters have certifications, but the problem with that is usually that in a mostly fossil electricity grid, buying up some renewable capacity doesn't really change much even if technically you can claim to run on 100% renewable energy.

For my private system I'll probably put up a public Grafana dashboard at some point that will show the amount of electricity produced and the battery charge status. But I will have a few other things connected to it, not only the servers running slrpnk.net

[–] Antitoxic9087@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to it!

[–] Charliebeans@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kbin is also using ActivityPub, cannot all of that be followed from here?

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

AFAICT you can't follow users from lemmy. Kbin is sort of like a hybrid between Lemmy and Mastodon.

[–] oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, the lemmy devs seem to actively want lemmy to not have that functionality 😔