I believe it will come with time, we already have IPv6 and microservers like Pi, but then users have to secure, update,backup, monitor and upgrade the software

I believe it will come with time, we already have IPv6 and microservers like Pi, but then users have to secure, update,backup, monitor and upgrade the software and hardware regularly ... There is no solution yet for that. So it's definitely an easier solution to use a managed service. BTW here is another Mastodon provider: https://elest.io/open-source/mastodon https://elest.io/open-source/mastodon Disclaimer: I work there