It was helpful. Thank you for the analogies.

I’m new too and am trying out the iOS mlem app which is in beta via FlightTest- pics were slow to load but are appearing after about 45 seconds.

Thanks so much. I am using Mlem iOS beta app via FlightTest to view this instance because the web-only version wasn’t quite fluid enough for me, and Mlem is working adequately via the beta so far. Mlem doesn’t auto-resize some images tho for viewing in the app yet (known bug on the GitHub request list).