I just stopped clicking in Twitter links once they intentionally disabled browsing without Javascript, and use Nitter.net if there's a tweet I really want to read.
Just added video support this morning. Total page load is 200kB. Double-click loads the video:
https://twitter.com/iSpoogeDaily/status/1607038383318081537
I'm releasing every week or two to Glitch unless I can get more funding. Latest version is on https://glitch.com/~hogumathi, there's supporter links and licensing info in the readme (public releases are AGPL).
Pagespeed score: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https://nitter.fly.dev/...
reference: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/515
Their hope is that their orgs probably aren't as bloated as twitter's
Honestly pathetic considering the size the engineering team used to be and points to an extremely broken culture.
I wonder how many teams worked on tweet embeds, each with their own incomplete understanding of the full widget and their own competing product priorities and OKRs
But dev deploying that abomination spent whole days less by just including random shit instead of understand the problems they solve! That's investor value!