I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before.
What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?
It’s everywhere, and for no good reason. I’ve yet to find a Lemmy instance that will work without JavaScript enabled.
There is a good reason for it, and that’s saving money. Computation on the user’s device is free, doing it on the server/cloud costs money.
Serving static files that’s cached in the browser, and providing a thin API layer is cheaper to host and might be worth it on the long run.
I’d support a JS free front end. Thankfully it wouldn’t even be hard to do, and you could even use a desktop client so you don’t even need anything but the API
Mlmym is server rendered I think