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I know it's gauche to mention it, but JFC, the bsky web UI is shockingly slow. 2MB of JS to render a timeline, not a PWA, larded up with workarounds for Safari bugs which make scrolling everywhere else worse...just...*sigh*. Thankfully, @mary.my.id's excellent Skeetdeck exists: skeetdeck.pages.dev

Bsky highlights the contradiction at the heart of React's bezzle: in order to support RN (supporting app store gatekeepers), it creates a model that makes the (open, interoperable, free) web site shite to use...pushing people to apps. This is not pro-open-web.

For the avoidance of doubt, that 2(.4)MB of JS is 2.4MB *compressed*. Unzipped it's more than 7MB. There are smaller dictionaries.

bsky.app/profile/jpsc... Yep, it's kinda sad. I hope they can improve when they have the capacity

"the capacity"? Nolan Lawson singlehandedly built Pinafore for Mastodon. @mary.my.id singlehandedly built Skeetdeck. It's not about resources, it's about priorities.

OMFG, the fonts are served *as TTF files*!!!!! Christ on a cracker.