Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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Spam (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Spam emails are riding on the rails of an existing infrastructure that provides incredible value. I agree that they are wasteful, but damn this is some melodramatic doodoo.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/does-email-spam-affect-the-enviroment/

Its estimated that spam consumes more than 33 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, the same amount as 2.4 million homes. It also produces the same amount of green house gas(GHG) emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

4g of CO2 per email? I find that hard to believe. Probably overestimating emissions like some media did with Netflix.

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-streaming-video-fact-checking-the-headlines

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