Maintenir autrement

Specifically, there are three interrelated ways in which the issue of sustainability comes to play for post.lurk.org. First, long-term sustainability of the project itself. Second, financial sustainability of the project. Last but not least, ecological sustainability of the project.
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Running your own instance is not trivial, but it’s not impossible for a small group of motivated people, as we’ve seen in our workshops. And this instance mitosis is the kind of scaling we’d like to see more happen on the Fediverse instead of the emergence of unsustainable and large instances.
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From Low-Tech10 to permacomputing11 and degrowth12, several of us on the admin side of LURK are interested in different frameworks to reconceptualize computing’s relation to the environment and that practice is also expressed in how we run post.lurk.org.
Lurk, On not scaling LURK: a tale of maintenance, federation, and governance, https://txt.lurk.org/on-not-scaling-lurk/

Les personnes qui maintiennent l’infrastructure de Lurk et les services associés (et surtout l’instance Mastodon post.lurk.org), ont rédigé un long texte pour expliquer pourquoi l’augmentation des capacités n’est pas une bonne idée (dans la perspective d’une autonomisation, d’une pérennité/sobriété et d’un espace politique). Les explications – bien contextualisées – sont nombreuses, comme les mèmes, et cette double dimension pédagogique et politique est des plus appréciable ! Le fait de refuser, de ne pas faire, de décider de ne pas agir, est des plus intéressante.