• Lilith [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    this press release claims it is more secure because it doesn’t use javascript, which frankly feels like a dinosaur take:

    https://fluxofficial.medium.com/flux-launches-open-source-alternative-twitter-front-end-focused-on-privacy-bed93634f5f5

    we get it gen-x, you hate JS and want to do everything with CSS and a dial up modem.

      • Lilith [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        :agony-immense:

        okay, I’m actually interested in hearing this from someone born in the same decade, why do you think js ruins the internet?

        • luther7718 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          If you'll settle for a millennial's opinion, websites used to show more information and load more quickly and didn't crash or have front-end bugs or gobble up all your memory. Idk how much of that is due to JS itself and how much is just the fact that the internet now is just five or six bloated corporate megasites though.

          As for the question in your OP, Twitter intentionally cripples their site for anyone not logged into an account, so I use Nitter because otherwise I can't read the site at all.

        • extremesatanism [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          JavaScript is extremely bloated and has little to no support for older devices, so people who can only afford older devices due to them being used, or people with extremely low-grade devices which lag anyways, cannot use a significant portion of the Internet.