@SrRochardBunson @kidehen @atomicpoet

Nah, because self-hosting still leaves you with these walls between yourself and end users you'd like to be in touch with.

Even if I self-host, I'm still reliant on every instance owner sitting between me and every one of those users.

Plus, self-hosting defeats the self-organizing community building that is one of the only features of the instance model, of people wandering to instances they like and thus seeding them with mutually-liked content.