I'm on the public Matrix.org server and I recommend new folks to sign up on the public server unless they're 100% sure they're willing to commit to the devops b

I'm on the public Matrix.org server and I recommend new folks to sign up on the public server unless they're 100% sure they're willing to commit to the devops burden of maintaining their own homeserver. I also know at least a halfdozen people who immediately said "yes" to the devops burden of maintaining their own homeserver (and reportedly, it's actually really easy). Different strokes for different folks. If self-hosting it was a pre-req for using it, I'd still be saying to myself "yeah, I'll do that riiiight after I get my closet k8s cluster just the way I want it", and, well, I know myself better than that, so I use the public one, and I'm happy.