I put a CDN in front of the images, so they should load faster now. I've also upgraded the server again. A new iOS app release is waiting for review.
@Gargron Thank you for all that you are doing. There was a post recently mentioning how it would be beneficial to post images in pixelfed and surface them on this instance to reduce the strain on this instance. I have searched around on the how but no luck. Do you happen to have somewhere to point me for that idea?