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Do you know what Reddit is or what kinda of site it is? People post content and send and receive messages. How would that be cached? I don’t think the average person uses multiple hundred per day, that is skewed by the highest power users (moderators performing thousands of actions.)

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People lurk. For every sent message I'm sure you have a significant factor of more cacheable pages fetched. If they have a few people using the app as a moderation tool and managing thousands of requests, maybe deal with that separately.

Lurkers are always the silent majority, and their patterns likely create opportunities to cache. I wonder, though, whether lurkers are likely to choose an app like Apollo. That user base might largely be a self-selected dopamine-hit-chasing subset.

You can cache subreddit feeds and comment threads which are the two most common API requests.

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