It fetches posts from the relays your contacts are posting to instead of just a random set you enter, its called the gossip protocol, ensures decentralization
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Got it. Any recommendations to speed things up? Used to work much faster for me before? Also, I notice on Amethys half my notes are missing but on other clients I can see much more further back in time
Not sure really, it works decent for me, but I also use pollerama.fun and other clients so maybe I dont see it too often, maybe try to see if you're fetching stuff from tor? That slows things down as well.
I'm having the same problem. I considered just blocking a slew of the ones that are getting queried but it would take ages to go through the hundred I don't want. Amethyst is pretty amazing, but right now it's very slow ro update feeds.