Besides what everyone already said, I would emphasize docker. Just take the plunge and learn it. It will make hosting and keeping things organised much easier.
If you want to go the extra mile, you could have a look into ansible, to make your build reproducible. But it's probably overkill for now. You'd probably take so long to get anything done that you might lose interest.
Never stopped using that UI. It's clean, it's functional, it's responsive, etc.
For the life of me, I have no idea why people changed.
I understand if you never saw it, but to have used it and deciding to migrate, that's beyond me.
And this is the reason people in IT often refer to computers as "machines", because at some point they started to replace the people doing the computations, and they needed to differentiate.
They will if they have a better UX, computational resources, brand recognition, and can sign you up with your current Instagram account. Which seems to be the case.
Will everyone join? No. I'd rather go back to Reddit than to sign up for it.
Will the vast majority of people join? Yes.
The new Threads app had something like 10M users in 7h. The whole of Lemmy is 2M users.
It's still a free userbase that they didn't have to grow.
They might not go down that route if they are successful from the beginning to establish a community. But they are still competing with Twitter and Bluesky, so they probably approached the instance admins to get an insurance that there would be activity from the start.
The last thing they want is to be the next Google+ (which they managed to beat). You have to guarantee buzz from the very beginning. After the metaverse flop, they cannot afford another one.
Less storage space (since you don't duplicate the data that has not been changed since the last backup), and ability to check different versions / restore / rollback.
Nice whataboutism you got there.
I'm not American, so I that's not a burn, in case you were trying.
Tell me, were those in power for decades, and then passed on their direct rule to their son without an election?
Did they also create legends about themselves? Really absurd stuff like they don't need to poop?