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Why is Lemmy so much faster than reddit?
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Much smaller user base, distributed servers, modern code (versus reddit's ancient code), less enshittification in the code (reddit's various manipulative algorithms).
Eh, the code is very inefficient.
It's probably down to how much random crap is being loaded along with what you're trying to see. The modern web means page load takes forever, in part because of all the random things your browser also has to pull down. Some of this content need to be loaded before you can render much of anything and some of that will result in calls to yet more random servers. Look at the network tab in your browser's dev tools to see what I'm talking about. Without an ad blocker you're probably looking at calls to 10-20 servers just to load a webpage.
The old reddit API was actually pretty snappy, in part because it didn't need a lot of this overhead. I suspect the same is true for Lemmy - no extra fluff.
And distributed over more than a thousand nerd servers :-)