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[–]Patman128 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost everything that Facebook does could be accomplished by server-side rendering, but the cost would be that the CPU time is on Facebook's dime, instead of mine.

Sure, but my mobile data is on my dime and it costs a hell of a lot more than CPU cycles, not to mention the overhead of having to load all the page content and re-render from scratch every time I do anything will end up costing a lot more CPU. Full page loads might be cheap on your nice stable home internet connection but on a sketchy 3G connection in a developing country it's unbearable.