Munin, Keeper of LoreApr 7, 2017

You know what the -really- nice part about mastodon is?

All the resources load from the same A record. There is only one DNS lookup required to access a mastodon site.

This matters a lot, and it's something that a lot of websites get horribly wrong.

Show threadMunin, Keeper of LoreApr 7, 2017

Especially for those of us who are on slow connections, loading up twitter or the like is -hideous-

So many third party libraries.

So many third party trackers.

So many various twitter domains.

And then having to go through their stupid tracking URL shortener? Takes about a week sometimes.

Versus here? Night and day. My site loads faster than twitter's CDN can push their nonsense.

Sometimes, simpler -is- better.

Show threadJim Fenton 🇺🇸🇨🇦
@munin Now, if we could only get people not to post using shortened URLs as well things would really be great. Their wish for analytics shouldn't take precedence over opacity and delay that creates.
Apr 7, 2017 at 3:51pmWeb
Show threadMunin, Keeper of LoreApr 7, 2017
@jimfenton That's ameliorated a lot by mastodon not including a link shortener that's mandatory, like that thrice-damned t.co idiocy.