Lemmy has gotten extremely sluggish the past couple days -- then I noticed it now uses 120mb RAM!

Has something changed in the past couple days to make dev.lemmy.ml a memory hog? There was never a performance issue in the past months, but now it's as fat as pleroma. I cannot use pleroma because of it's absurd amount of RAM consumption.

If this doesn't improve, does anyone know of a client app that would enable users to avoid the web app?