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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:17:54 JST Alex Russell

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   • Nolan Lawson

   @nolan This is a choice, specifically, about class and inclusion. For the benefit of the enfranchised and the comfortable, Bluesky is making their service less accessible to folks who are less wealthy. The pushback I get when pointing out how utterly incompetent their web 2.4MB critical path JS bundle (and fonts served without compression) are is invariably a sort of reflexive defense about how they're "trying so hard" and "just a small team" (rinse, repeat).

   And it's both true and telling.

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:17:55 JST Alex Russell

     • Nolan Lawson

     So I've got a bsky acct, and y'all, their web app is everything I warn about. It's React (because they have capitulated to the App Store game via Expo and "need" React Native), but it's also web-as-afterthought-flavoured React. Which is going just about as well as you might expect for folks who don't own the latest devices:

     https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=241115_BiDcDR_7GP-r:1-c:0,241116_BiDc3C_3VN-r:1-c:0

     Mastodon's React mistakes pale in comparison and, ofc, @nolan's pinafore.social blows them both out of the water. Failure this bad is a choice.

     Joachim repeated this.