I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to preserve privacy.
Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?
Even if you're serving it locally...I mean a regular 100mbit line should easily support tens or hundreds of text users...
What am I missing?