Lemmy basically mirrors entire remote communities excluding media in the local db, which I’m guessing includes mod actions. No idea why remote bans are also shown apparently, I’m experiencing the same thing

Yeah you’re right, I just felt the need to point out that API calls are not really comparable to serving a full website.

The thing is that when you interact with the remote server directly it’s not 10 api calls, it’s 10 full-blown HTML webpages that have to be served to you, which are way bigger than REST API calls.