I’m here. Took a few days as I stood up my own friendica instance first off and it took me a while to realize it doesn’t play that well with Lemmy. So I’ve started my own Lemmy instance now, which was 300% harder than it should have been as the devs aren’t keeping the documentation up to date with the config files.
Now that I’ve used the fediverse it’s not as weird as it sounds. But the learning curve is steep and I’m only here thanks to perseverance.