I think this is getting downvoted a little unfairly. I suspect this is mostly because the title went a bit too far in the "provocative" direction. If you were to build on this, I'd say extract the parts about setting up your own instance (everything after "In Comes Lemmy") and expand that.

A couple other thoughts:

• I agree that !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is awesome, if you contact pmjv he'll probably respond
• You say: "When you use Lemmy, you have to subscribe to specific communities in order to see the content from those communities." which is not literally true -- you can just set your account to read "all", and a lot of people do that. Not sure what the default is, especially if you set up your own instance.