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Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.
Drawn from what Phil Hagelberg said
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What Phil Hagelberg actually said
- Phil Hagelberg Programmer known online as technomancy
when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.
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↗in which social media can be put in your own handstechnomancy.us
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