I have some load time on Astral too. Sometimes the notification feed becomes the global feed, which is... kind of weird. Sometimes the feed loads fast and sometimes it takes 30-60 secs.
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extremely weird, will keep an eye out for that. initial load/reload are slow for any page that queries db (like follows feed). if you can manage to not reload astral is fairly usable, but current version of astral has some errors that kinda force reload (fixed for next release)
Same, astral isn't much faster for me