The average person isn't using it.

Who does?

Journalists.

My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.

I'm proud to say I'm nowhere near it. There's others who have taken the challenge, and I'm all for it!

Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I'm traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

This is pretty neat!

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/intro/what-is-this

Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?

I typically only have one or the other.

I went back to school in my early 30s.

I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

I'm pretty sure they assumed if you bought their service, you have the competency to properly set it up.

And I proved them wrong.

Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

Now that you mentioned it, it didn't! I recall even docker Linux setups would yell at me.

Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I'm starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there's no user count.

It's an annoying experience and I'm not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.

I did a double take at that $4000 budget as well! Glad I wasn't the only one.

Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I'm trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that's the word that starts to make people confused.