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 Even though I'm stuck with throttled bandwidth until we get Internet connected at home, I log into Nostr daily. It's certainly a different experience. It feels like I'm looking through a small portal window, and putting my note into a pneumatic tube, knowing that I won't see replies or reactions until I can get back inside some day.

It takes several minutes to load my feed, and the same posts from six days ago load first. After several more minutes, I'll get yesterdays notes, but only with blurred images, and replies to the note (other than the replies by OP) are non-existent.

Sometimes my feed is missing people entirely, as I will see their posts the next day between posts that I've already read.

Sometimes waiting doesn't even give me anything. With no indicator, it's a guessing game as to when to make another attempt at loading my feed. 
 I experience this with Primal (both mobile and web), but not on Ditto or Nostrudel (web). The latter two are much speedier for me at loading, and Ditto lets me see my feed without re-posts (I turn it on and off), while nostrudel uploads media much more quickly for me. I like Primal for its UI bring nearly the same as Twitter, which I don't miss but got used to the UI. I also like Primal for the ability to see more stuff (like who quoted a note, etc.), but it is definitely slower.  
 I have not tried any web clients on phjone, just desktop PC.