Do you need javascript to fetch content? No.
Do you need javascript to send content (comments, posts, reactions)? No.
Does federated social media require immediate page updates without refreshing the entire page? No.
The correct answer is: depends on what the user (or the main dev) considers good user experience. Is a clean, fast loading page good UX? I would personally say yes. It’s much easier to have that without JS than with. Would everyone look at that linked example I gave and say “yes, this is good UX”? No, I’ve no doubt a lot of people would feel it looks too barebones to “feel good”.
What have you done to say that federated social media doesn’t need js
piefed is mostly prerendered.
It still uses javascript for votes and stuff.
It’s possible to use forms and an endpoint that returns
204 no content, but there’s not much feedback there.Do you need javascript to fetch content? No.
Do you need javascript to send content (comments, posts, reactions)? No.
Does federated social media require immediate page updates without refreshing the entire page? No.
Example: https://tap.resistant.tech/sarah/posts/1749417193
Is it easy to have a good user experience without js? No
The correct answer is: depends on what the user (or the main dev) considers good user experience. Is a clean, fast loading page good UX? I would personally say yes. It’s much easier to have that without JS than with. Would everyone look at that linked example I gave and say “yes, this is good UX”? No, I’ve no doubt a lot of people would feel it looks too barebones to “feel good”.