The thing is, we all (mostly) have access to that written knowledge, and friends gave me the same advice, but it’s very difficult to internalize it and accept it sometimes.

It took me 25 years of hard experience to figure out what this anime girl said in 15 seconds.

You’ve heard of “Free Hugs”…

You’ve heard of “Free Shrugs”…

Now get ready for:

if you show up unshowered and without deodorant ata fucking con and im near you i will puke all over you.

Don’t think there’s anything on lemmy yet.

!fosai@lemmy.world – has a good overview/introduction

!localllama@sh.itjust.works

!localllm@lemmy.world

!localai@lemmy.world

!localllama@kbin.social

Some of those are inactive, though.

Not OP, but FWIW I didn’t realize until reading your comment that the “awesome-selfhosted software” under Resources was actually an FAQ/List. I thought it was a repo of maybe just a couple relevant apps.

I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense now that I think about it, but I think it’s easy to miss.

reddits true size lies at around 5 million or less. Less than 5 times Lemmy’s size.

Lemmy doesn’t have 1.5 million active users; that’s how many active users the Fediverse as a whole has; most of those are Mastodon users. Lemmy has around 32K active users. So if your 5 million number is right, Reddit is around 156 times larger than us.

I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve heard an argument that goes like this: Evil Company will “embrace” something, then “extend” it in a way that only works with Evil Company’s product, then “extinguish” that thing by making Evil Company’s approach incompatible with it. A discussion is provided here: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html