Guess you're using a dial up connection?
Clearnet is a billion times faster than Tor on my end.

And yes, I know about Gemini, I even mentioned it in a comment on another post.
It's lean and sane, the main problem is that you're still entirely dependent on all of the clearnet middlemen (well, at least Gemini browsers won't complain about self signed certificates, so it's still better I guess).