I think that intro (and the dead lemmy thumbnail) and the long part about reddit is why you got downvoted. People want to hear good things or constructive criticism about their niche platform and are kinda tired of reddit.
Try not to get discouraged about posting. I saw what you meant later in the article, it just came off badly from the intro materials.
I think single user instances and subscribing to communities doesn’t really work with lemmy because of the low volume and overlapping communities.
I actually read all new on my instance and just block anything I don’t want to see instead of subscribing. That was when communities come and go I still see the content. There are tradeoffs though you’ll have to come back later to see lots of comments usually.
Thanks for not using AI but why would you post on lemmy that you gave up on lemmy? Are you trying to get more people to leave?
Probably just go with SSD storage because 2T is fairly low for hard drives these days. Still a pretty good idea to do a mirror.
Pretty much any CPU that isn’t a raspberry pi will comfortably max out a gigabit Ethernet connection.