[ikt]

Fosstodon posts that are on my home feed from other instances like this: https://imgur.com/6ToDHHm which is from floss.social load up instantly

Looking at the image source despite it being uploaded to another instance it's hosted on Fosstodon: https://cdn.fosstodon.org/cache/media_attachments/files/110/...

That said when I see posts linked to Mastodon on HN I do notice that maybe the HN Hug of Death hits them hard as they are noticeably slower to load than my day to day interaction with Mastodon, maybe this is what you're seeing?

[bobsmooth]

I'm sure it's fine if both servers have the resources but visiting a small instance from a different small instance and all the images load really slowly.