Nostr without caching has really poor performance the moment you add any features beyond notes and reactions. Even reactions degrade the experience significantly.

If your client works really well without caching then you are a superstar dev, because this protocol is not made to “just work”

My 2 sats after dealing with it for several days with an LLM. I know I’m a low benchmark but I’ve spoken to other prominent nostr devs who expressed this sentiment.