You might as well close the tabs and use a search engine at that point right? I honestly dont understand the workflow here

You are on the sever page. Soumds like you're actually looking for clients here:

https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients

What is the incentive for instance owners to push people toward the local feed vs the all feed?

This is just importing a list of extensions from chrome and matching them to a Firefox extension. If the extension doesn't have a Firefox version it won't fo anything.

I signed up for beeper, but realized you can self host a matrix server that uses the same bridges between these chat services.

I was skeptical at first, but it's been super solid and refreshing to have a single chat app for everything.

I think that was steam and this is some other metric, maybe browser stats?

Syncing support is a core feature of immich. The app is top notch from my experience with it.

Would highly reccomend https://immich.app/ too. It's the solution I've finally landed on after trying out most of the options out there.

Or this:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

I have no idea why no other company has been able to recapture the magic of pebble. It was by far the best smartwatch I've ever owned.

Docker-compose and a terminal is how I do it. Its simple and effective. I'm able to manage ~20 services that way.

It exists already! And its actually a mastodon bot. Check out this post:

https://reddthat.com/post/300625