diff --git a/src/storages/EventsDB.ts b/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
index abf076c7..1265a98b 100644
--- a/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
+++ b/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { nip27 } from 'nostr-tools';
 
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { DittoTables } from '@/db/DittoTables.ts';
+import { normalizeFilters } from '@/filter.ts';
 import { dbEventCounter, dbQueryCounter } from '@/metrics.ts';
 import { RelayError } from '@/RelayError.ts';
 import { purifyEvent } from '@/storages/hydrate.ts';
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@ class EventsDB implements NStore {
 
   /** Converts filters to more performant, simpler filters that are better for SQLite. */
   async expandFilters(filters: NostrFilter[]): Promise<NostrFilter[]> {
-    filters = structuredClone(filters);
+    filters = normalizeFilters(structuredClone(filters));
 
     for (const filter of filters) {
       if (filter.search) {
@@ -287,10 +288,42 @@ class EventsDB implements NStore {
         // If this results in an empty kinds array, NDatabase will remove the filter before querying and return no results.
         filter.kinds = filter.kinds.filter((kind) => !NKinds.ephemeral(kind));
       }
+
+      // Convert tag filters into `ids` filter for performance reasons.
+      const tagEntries = Object.entries(filter).filter(EventsDB.isTagEntry);
+      if (tagEntries.length) {
+        const tagIds: string[] = await tagEntries
+          .map(([key, value]) =>
+            this.kysely
+              .selectFrom('nostr_tags')
+              .select('event_id')
+              .distinct()
+              .where('name', '=', key.replace(/^#/, ''))
+              .where('value', 'in', value)
+          )
+          .reduce((result, query) => result.intersect(query))
+          .execute()
+          .then((rows) => rows.map(({ event_id }) => event_id));
+
+        if (tagIds.length) {
+          filter.ids = filter.ids ?? [];
+          filter.ids.push(...tagIds);
+        }
+
+        for (const [key] of tagEntries) {
+          delete filter[key];
+        }
+      }
     }
 
     return filters;
   }
+
+  /** Check if the object entry is a valid tag filter. */
+  private static isTagEntry(entry: [string, unknown]): entry is [`#${string}`, string[]] {
+    const [key, value] = entry;
+    return key.startsWith('#') && Array.isArray(value);
+  }
 }
 
 export { EventsDB };