

Yes, the more Lemmy communities you subscribe to the heavier the federation traffic will be.
PieFed communities federate votes more efficiently (in batches) so those won’t bog you down as much. So if you can avoid !news@lemmy.world and instead join !world@quokk.au and avoid !technology@lemmy.world and instead join !technology@piefed.social, etc etc you might have a better time of it.

























Yeah in PieFed the search tool is just for searching.
To add a feed, go to https://piefed.chrisco.me/feeds then click ‘Add remote feed’. Same general pattern as for communities.