Comment by mariusor

I'm working on a similar service but built on top of ActivityPub and from experience I can say that consuming the firehose in real time with your app (I'm referring to the "random discussions" section) is going to be slow as hell.

I recently moved into a direction where the relevant streams of content (let's call them subreddits) get built in the background and persisted locally so when users interact with the website don't need to wait for the whole thing to be built synchronously.