@Edent I don't really disagree, but to add some nuance: literal self-hosting plants the seeds for user-owned cooperatives running services, which is IMHO the only way projects like the Fediverse can hope to scale to much more than the current number of MAUs. Sure, it can also be done to some extend on ever growing commercial hosting services, but you quite quickly reach a point where that is just not very cost effective compared to running your own second-hand server in a co-location center or a good home fiber connection.