ssb: Oh golly you're supposed to request a pragma analyze periodically this way.

apps/ssb.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
 	"type": "tildefriends-app",
 	"emoji": "🦀",
-	"previous": "&QPdP4BaztX9l3BBQNVbFAu8t5iN5NTqzhIOr+8bNhb0=.sha256"
+	"previous": "&HrNj+ya8UIHQIy0MgoaKBcW+MU56iKLqpNpOnUiKTZg=.sha256"
 }

apps/ssb/tf-tab-news-feed.js

@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 				]
 			)
 		);
-		console.log(result);
 		return result;
 	}
 
@@ -118,10 +117,11 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 			result = await tfrpc.rpc.query(
 				`
 					WITH mentions AS (SELECT messages.rowid, messages.id, messages.previous, messages.author, messages.sequence, messages.timestamp, messages.hash, json(messages.content) AS content, messages.signature
-						FROM messages_fts(?1)
+						FROM messages_refs
-						JOIN messages ON messages.rowid = messages_fts.rowid
+						JOIN messages ON messages.id = messages_refs.message
 						JOIN json_each(?2) AS following ON messages.author = following.value
 						WHERE
+							messages_refs.ref = ?1 AND
 							messages.author != ?1 AND
 							(?3 IS NULL OR messages.timestamp >= ?3) AND messages.timestamp < ?4
 						ORDER BY timestamp DESC limit ?5)
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class TfTabNewsFeedElement extends LitElement {
 					SELECT TRUE AS is_primary, * FROM mentions
 				`,
 				[
-					'"' + this.whoami.replace('"', '""') + '"',
+					this.whoami,
 					JSON.stringify(this.following),
 					start_time,
 					end_time,

src/ssb.db.c

@@ -503,6 +503,10 @@ void tf_ssb_db_init(tf_ssb_t* ssb)
 		tf_printf("Adding flags column.\n");
 		_tf_ssb_db_exec(db, "ALTER TABLE messages ADD COLUMN flags INTEGER");
 	}
+
+	tf_printf("Optimizing...\n");
+	_tf_ssb_db_exec(db, "PRAGMA optimize=0x10002");
+	tf_printf("Done optimizing.\n");
 	tf_ssb_release_db_writer(ssb, db);
 }