Asklemmy

Marketing bullshit that appeals to some low-information, vibes-based liberals.

Greenwashing, can't believe this even is a question

I personally think it's kind of dumb as hell. I'm not sure how you would know but also websites are a tiny fraction of emissions. If you want to lower emissions it's much more effective to go for legislation local to you.

So uh. What the fuck does that mean?

Stupid and meaningless.

If this encourages light, fast loading pages, I'm all for it.

Meaningless bread and circus created by capitalist elites to delude people into thinking we are more responsible than them for pollution. Wonder why these BS certifications do not get created outside of West... something something manufacturing consent media literacy

My website is running off of spare resources on my 10w router, and yet my 30w monitor that I've been using for 10+ years still says that I've saved exactly 0.0 trees every time I turn it on. Thank you, now please fuck off with that bullshit.

What the hell is a green website

Pretty sure taking a single billionaire’s jet out of the sky will make more of a difference than anything these certificates could achieve.

Whatever it is, it’s a joke. Things like this just take the focus off the people actually causing the problem.

Same as "carbon footprint" - meaningless greenwashed bullshit there to shift focus away from those responsible, and the true scale of the damage they're causing for money.

If anything - seeing that kind of certification would make me actively avoid a company because you know they're at best using it to virtue signal for profits, at worst and more likely, they're using it to cover up much much worse shit they're doing.

Out of curiosity I've let it rate Low<-Tech Magazine, a website run on an ARM SBC powered exclusively with off-grid solar power, and that only achieves 87% / A.

Link to results

It's completely negligible compared to industrial manufacturing, bitcoin mining, waste, etc.

Make a lighter website because no one gives a shit about a heavy one.

If ESG is anything to go by, just a greenwashing fad they'll drop as soon as it doesn't have the desired effect

The Carbon footprint of a website is hard to determine and given the examples posted in this thread, I would not trust their conclusions.

relevant if it sabotages coal mining infrastructure

It is about as useful as a bullshit milkshake is to a vegan.

Huh?
How tf can my website produce less than 0g pf emissions?

stupid but if it removes useless bloat and data farming im for it

We are getting dumber

Is it too difficult to post some context?

Is it ending capitalism? If not, it's greenwashing. Any action other than stopping the one thing fucking up our planet is a distraction.

Irelevent greenwashing, nothing will change unless we solve the systematic problems, it does not matter what one website or person is doing

While I am at it recycling is a scam, and so is the individual carbon footprint

Mostly seems a bit silly but I think if people were making any sort of large decisions based on it, I would probably raise an eyebrow. But I like the idea of people considering the environmental impact of everything they do. Crypto Bros sure could’ve used that lesson.

It’s not like it’s doing any harm unless people put too much stock into it. Like the energy star rating on my HVAC unit - it’s just information to me. It’s not like I’m making major decisions based off of it or getting the feel goods. No reason this can’t be like that.

That's fucking stupid.

For all the comments that say “the real problem is…”: this is crisis and working on all emission sources contributes to a solution not just the biggest emitters.

Everything we online has an impact in the real world and there’s some value in reminding people that. And yes, some sites could be causing a lot emissions than others.

Some are powered by solar, others by coal.

ARM chips are more energy efficient than x86 and so on.