So far, the #Friendica update has a noticeable impact! Not perfect, but it cuts many load times in half. Going from 30-60 seconds to 15-30 is quite the progress.
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#Friendica just dropped an important update that pre-generates the content of channels - considering that the home feed is itself a channel (and can easily take over a minute to load sometimes) this might well make Friendica finally becomes properly usable in #SelfHosting hardware. Time to test!