no wonder why it seemed so fast here on lemmy.ml if the new content is going in, that puts less load on the server. -- You are right, I don't see anything in https://lemmy.ml/c/technology@lemmy.world?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New
There is some new code in Lemmy 0.18.3 to remove dead peer servers, I wonder if that tripped up or something.