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To fix the climate crisis we need systemic change
We should ask ourselves - which systems are within our reach to change? What can we do on a community level, here and now?
Well, one thing we can do is hosting Mastodon servers and plant trees. Here's how to use that for systemic change
On the the social web there are quite a few servers with income. Some servers are donation based, some have EU grants, some are subscription based, and some are hosted by for profit corporations.
We on Mastodon.green use 20 % of the income to plant trees.
In generalized terms what we're doing can be called turnover based climate action.
Most people on the fediverse are actually on servers with turnover in one way or the other. It's a turnover based system. We can use a non-technical federation protocol to create systemic change here.
The working name for this protocol is 'The Green Fediverse Protocol'.
It can be implemented here and now. The gist of the protocol is to only federate with servers that plant trees.
3/n #GreenFediverse
Now is the time to take a principled stand for a greener social web! Now is the time for climate action.
I'm hereby giving three months notice before de-federating Mastodon.green from non-tree-planting fediverse servers, i.e. those who hasn't announced a credible plan to adopt the Green Fediverse Protocol by 1 July 2025.
This will only apply to servers with income, such as mastodon.social, pixelfed.social, tchncs.de, flipboard.com, chaos.social etc.
Do you think the the social web should have built in climate action?
Feel free to boost for a greener world
5/5 #Mastodon #Fediverse #ClimateChange
Okay, there was a little April fools joke hidden inside this tread 
There's no de-federation planned for 1 July 2025.
Tried to be a bit funny with the poll by not including any real "no" option, but then again, should "no built-in climate action" be an option anywhere these days?
That said, the poll is useful as it is. Thank you for voting in it. Most people voted with a strong "yes", followed by "
".
I'm not saying that we must have a 'Green Fediverse Protocol" today, but maybe climate action could become part of ActivityPub someday?
@JohanEmpa “no” isn’t an option? 
They’re both laudable goals, and I love your initiative at mastodon.green. But by linking laudable goals you make reaching either more fragile
@JohanEmpa interesting, thanks for raising the issue, and it’s not one that I had previously considered. Please can you give more context? Of those / the large servers, which would be at risk from this proposed defederation? Or is this an #AprilFool?
@womump Yes, indeed, the de-federation part of this thread was a little April joke 
@JohanEmpa "built in climate action" sounds like an eighties posable figure with a karate chop. "Captain planet, now with built-in climate action!" (You press a button on his back.)
It is of course entirely up to you whether you defederate from other instances. But I wonder if this will have a negative effect in that we won't see persuasive arguments or helpful tips from your server
I think it is important to do so.
@JohanEmpa i legit thought this bit was real 
@ChildlessBambinoo @JohanEmpa I did too!
@CiaraNi @ChildlessBambinoo It's close to being real, isn't it?
I want built-in climate action, the question is just how to make that happen in a sensible way.
@JohanEmpa @ChildlessBambinoo It's an interesting and real question you've raised.
@CiaraNi @JohanEmpa it's a good idea for servers to donate a percentage of their profit this way. I just wonder how many of the large servers would be willing to. Getting Mastodon social to agree would be a big win
