Hm, how so? What would be a better comparison be, for discussing the relative page load times of a mastodon page be, in your opinion?
If X product exists. Then Y comes and is largely considered an alternative to X, and someone says Y is slow. Does it not make sense to compare it to X?
Because Twitter and Mastodon are interchangeable here. If this same person posted the original content as a Tweet and there were a pattern of users posting Twitter links to boost Twitter engagement, the problem would stand.
Ah, so you're point was more that regardless if its mastodon or twitter, they are both terrible hosting options, and we can do better, like hosting the link itself? Gotcha, and I agree.
Yes, exactly. I was just lamenting the load time as an additional problem with that being the submitted link.
I would note as well that the Mastodon instance clearly struggled with the initial load from the HN traffic. Testing its load time when few users from HN were being directed to it won't be a very good benchmark against Twitter.
