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Lemmy is plenty fast, just the UI is seriously bloated. Using lemmy api on a third party app is a smooth af.
If you're using piefed.social or any of the other popular piefed instances, they're using CloudFlare. So ya, it'll be faster because they have CDN all across the globe. Also your login credentials and tracking data will be sent to a cloudflare server without user knowledge.
So ya, I'd rather have a few milliseconds delay and avoid all that tracking and MITM. Thanks though.
Fair, though worth pointing out that the choice to use CloudFlare is an instance-level decision, not a software-level one, and the PieFed software is still faster than Lemmy regardless of the choice to use CloudFlare. And this despite showing 5-fold more posts, iirc it was a roughly 25-fold speedup per post shown for the main page.