The local-first podcast, localfirst.fm, is quite good

Really annoying that it’s at the Feed level. I usually browse Lemmy by Subscribed, so having to go back to Feeds looses my position in me own feed, just because I wanted to look up that one thing, or check new replies for that other message

Not amateurish at all, but good questions. I’m not confident enough to answer your second question, but on your first question: yes, you can use the hosting service you already have. Given that you are renting a VPS that is. It looks like Strato is calling this “hosting”. Don’t use their “WordPress hosting” package for this though, as it won’t allow you to install the instance software.

Even after reading both the blog and the website itself I still have no idea what this is supposed to be? Is it a standalone git client that tries to do things differently? Is it a GitHub alternative? I’m super confused

Expect those people are not black and need to stop pretending they are. Other than that, it’s always been a great and festive time for me