[kwijibob]

I love the idea of decentralised apps for freedom of thought and privacy reasons.

One quibble with this claim: "with no server running 24/7 just to sync the data every once in a while, you avoid the production of the server in the first place and the energy it consumes when running."

Has anyone done any studies on this?

I personally wonder if a million book authors using Google Docs online on Chromebooks is going to be more energy efficient than a million local PC's running Libreoffice on Ubuntu?

[ladyanita22]

No, because in reality you'd be comparing one million local PC's running libreoffice vs one million PC's running Chrome+frontend and one server running the backend

[eptcyka]

One server? More like 20 back end servers, some load balancers, and 3 availability zones times 2 data centers at the very least.

[tadfisher]

A significant chunk of that data and traffic will move to IMAP servers, and those resources will be multiplied by replicating a CRDT via email.