The intersection of people who can host it themselves vs those who host chats, video conferences, etc events is very very small. Once they start trying to figu

The intersection of people who can host it themselves vs those who host chats, video conferences, etc events is very very small. Once they start trying to figure out the SSH host keys and TLS firewalls, they will become very quickly overwhelmed and out of their depth. They would likely turn to an expert at this point, but it has become far cheaper and easier to just turn to a third-party service to handle this. The very service you ask them to dismiss for the troubles of hosting themselves. On the other end of the spectrum, I have dedicated systems to hosting my own chats, emails, source code, and more. My user count is super low. Seems that not everyone wants to come to my copy-cat Gitea server when "all the cool kids" are on GitHub