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~~For some reason, browse.feddit.de only caches our Episodes community, but lemmyverse.net caches our entire instance. 🤔~~

I think I got it figured out. Spacing! And the two services look for different things.

FreshRSS here, too. Tech, State and local news all nicely sorted where I can firehose it or just see small sections.

If you can do everything with Docker/Docker Compose, you free yourself from worrying about the underlying system. Docker becomes what you need to learn, and the worst part of a Linux setup is just getting Docker installed and updated.

Ubuntu would be my Linux pick, though. Long support, paid support if necessary, and a very large community.