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Yes, unfortunately Mastodon 4.0's public web interface now uses JS to render threads. Lots of people are mad about it.

It's rumoured someone could patch it and run their own. Haven't tried for myself. Seems like a lot of work and JavaScript is pretty convenient as compared to full page reloads or frames.

Lmao, the never amount of times a page felt faster or more responsive than a page refresh. Oh joy, i clicked and nothing is happening and i get no progress notification. Really great.

The entire premise is absurd. What application spends more time on SSR than data fetch, or other? Exactly freaking zero that ive ever operated.

If you turn JavaScript on it makes voting on HN much faster.

Try https://dro.pm and tell me if I should make every click a full page reload. That bigcorps fuck it up doesn't mean it's the method itself that's harmful

Fwiw, I'd like this site to have fallbacks for non-JS users, but it's a heck of a lot of work to make everything twice and nobody asked yet or contributed a patch for even basic functionality

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