This thread is quite enlightening. It seems the engineering community predominantly would like to be able to self host email (and presumably other services). By

This thread is quite enlightening. It seems the engineering community predominantly would like to be able to self host email (and presumably other services). By proxy of that I guess that email hosting is not just for one user but maybe also friends and family or some community that you are part of. It's quite clear that managed centralised services accelerated the adoption of the internet, email, etc and the majority of consumers don't really care about self hosting but it also speaks to the fact that we've given up ownership of this aspect of our lives without clear understanding of how it will affect us in the long term. If no one but large corporations own all the services we use then it puts us in a pretty precarious position.