> Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do. fewer in ratio/percentage or pure numbers. If it is later, I disagree. Running your own insta

> Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do. fewer in ratio/percentage or pure numbers. If it is later, I disagree. Running your own instance of federated platform or forum has never been this easier. I have a discourse, pleroma etc running currently. There are lot of people running them when you dig around. What you find the problem is noise and search - both of which are dominated by big companies and pesky marketers hijacking. Anything big with traction has people paid by companies in big sums trying to game their post to the top. If you don't have shit ton of traffic or content, you won't even get on google search unless you search for very specific keyword or direct name which very few do. The search everywhere not just your search engine but on social media is optimized for the lowest denominator who searches for x when he wants y. The search learns the way to ignore your words or meaning completely. So both social media and search are hijacked. What else is there for discovering things? specific niche forums which also needs to be discoverable for people to land on. With so many gate keepers on what should be installed on your device - app store or playstore. I am surprised lot of quirky things still pop up from time to time. But then I look into my surrounding, no one else gets the same stuff that I do....which means I am living in an echo chamber. Edit: example of companies fucking with search - https://ibb.co/Lzh5ktQ https://ibb.co/Lzh5ktQ