Many sites like “Elude” work perfectly without javascript, allowing their use through tools to escape censorship such as Tor.

Why doesn’t Lemmygrad implement this too?

  • nutomicA
    11·
    3 years ago

    Someone would have to write an alternative to lemmy-ui which doesnt use js. This doesnt require any changes to Lemmy itself, and can be written in any language. lemmy-lite is such a project, but development is inactive.

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    27 days ago

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      • embaixadordaursal@lemmygrad.mlOP
        13·
        3 years ago

        I’m not claiming it is. But it’s a possibility. And I’ve shared it on other sublemmys to draw attention to something essential.

        Many tools, programs and websites are placed on the internet to attract specific users and collect data. And it’s possible to create a version without javascript with basic functionality, sites like Elude prove it.

        • Nyaa
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          3 years ago

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          • BlackLotus
            41·
            3 years ago

            This wasn’t really made to be the safe haven for people who know multiple state secrets and have assassins after them, it’s just a federated link aggregator.

            Lmao, right? Well said. There are different tools for different jobs.

              • BlackLotus
                61·
                3 years ago

                It does run on tor, you just have to enable javascript, losing some of the benefits of tor.

                Either way, this isn’t the place for putting state secrets that make you fear for your life. There are already better tools for that, and lemmy was never trying to be that.

                If you want a lemmy instance that does, make your own.

                You’re clearly not a developer, so you don’t understand that what you’re asking is for the lemmy devs to start the frontend over from scratch. Additionally, for most normal users who don’t have your specific needs, JavaScript powered webpages are likely preferable. In a perfect world, there would be both a JS-free and a JS version of the web page to cater to both categories.

                We don’t live in that perfect world, sorry. Feel free to dedicate thousands of hours to learning to program and then hundreds or thousands more to implement the feature you want. We’d all appreciate your contribution.

                • stopit
                  12·
                  3 years ago

                  It’s not about state secrets…it is about user rights which is paramount to the free software movement. If developers really feel JS is necessary (its not) they should at least limit themselves to libre-js (they don’t).

        • CHEF-KOCH
          42·
          3 years ago

          Same like it possible that moon landing was hoax right, easy-peasy manipulating 400k people who worked on that project…

          Come back to reality, friend.

  • CHEF-KOCH
    52·
    3 years ago

    Lemmy is no honeypot and no programming language is perfect + there are attacks that work without JavaScript, CSS exfiltration attacks for example.

    Try harder.