Question:

Where are you interacting with and being interacted with others online in the most authentic and fulfilling way for you?

Background:

I have been really seeking out some participation in a group for the purposes of knowledge sharing. I turned inward with the rejection of typical social media doom scrolling. But have since found it very difficult to get out of isolation with a remote job.

I want to find community digitally but have been struggling to do so.

I joined a gaming Reddit group a decade ago that provided the opportunity for me to talk and play games with a fairly moderated environment.

I've found Discord to be substantially less participatory than that TeamSpeak/Reddit combo was.

I would LIKE to find something similar here on Lemmy because I think link aggregators and long form write ups are more of my preference of communication with others online (forums). I'd go to reddit but I left for digital privacy reasons.

Studying and awk came up.

Spent about an hour and I see some useful commands that extend past what "cut" can do. But really when dealing with printf() format statements is anyone using awk scripts for this?

Or is everyone just using their familiar scripting language. I'd reach for Python for the problems being presented as useful for awk.

Even though it's pretty subjective, I'm curious what other comedy podcasts out there are on the top of their game.

Currently I've been listening to Your Mom's House but I've heard from others that it's fallen a bit since it's earlier years.

Has anyone else noticed an absence of new releases on PCVR?

I feel like the latest game was Ghosts of Tabor and everything else came out 2022 or earlier.

What are your favorite resources to recommend for beginners?

I'm wanting to get interested for doing a cyberdeck case, and/or custom cluster racks for Raspberry Pi's but any and all newbie resources would be appropriate for this question.

Loved the aesthetics from pictures I had seen of other cyberdecks.

Does anyone have recommendations on builds to get started with?

It would be convenient to swipe away posts I've already seen. Something I got used to as a habit on RIF once I got it setup.

Definitely not a deal breaker but might make for a nice UX add.

Thanks for the hard work!!

Can the admins in lemmyworld capture some data on what the real cost of hosting a Lemmy and what the user capacity is like?

I'd consider hosting a federated servers for my friends and I would like to know some tangible parameters on how big I could go.

Edit: Thanks everybody! Seems like a standard VPS is the go to. I think I have the wherewithal to do this at some point with my skill set. Will start looking into it.