Yes it take some time to build a circuit but hidden services will always be slower even afterwards since there are not only your hops but also the hidden services ones.

It could be. Lots of research needed on this.

Here is how I got #citrine to work as both a local relay and as an exposed onion service as outbox relay on my phone. Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqsda2memtapc2lykjnd8t9px4ake2stw39lg6k49xj6u3jz3pteu6qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3eryvfwvdhk6tcf3g7ce for the idea!

Download Citrine and start as local relay

Open Orbot

Tap more

Tap onion hosted services

Tap user services

Tap +

Add any name to service

Add 4869 to both ports

Hit save

Exit from orbot

Restart orbot by closing out or force close

Restart orbot and connect orbot vpn again

Tap hosted services and copy new onion url

Open #Amethyst and go to relays

Add ws://yournewonionaddress. onion:4869 to outbox relay

Remove any other outbox relay

Hit save

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#nostr

People using Amethyst over Tor, do you perceive any slowdown when loading things?

Tor is technically a lot slower, but I can't see any difference when browsing on Amethyst.

If no one notices, maybe we should enable this by default.