Thanks for working through these issues and improving performance of the website! Very appreciated. I've been tempted recently to create my own Lemmy instance, was this a problem with an nginx configuration option? How much does Beehaw deviate from a standard Lemmy deployment?
Feel free to answer vaguely if you don't feel comfortable with giving away the details : )
I have Rust experience and will consider helping out. I've been wanting to help out Lemmy recently anyway.