It's self-hosted FOSS, you're not paying anyone directly and if you don't feel it delivers something you can write it yourself or pay to have it written. Anywa

It's self-hosted FOSS, you're not paying anyone directly and if you don't feel it delivers something you can write it yourself or pay to have it written. Anyway, this gets into a philosophical point about the whole Reddit exodus - ID federation and content federation are two different things, and when people talk about the friction of joining a forum vs clicking subscribe on reddit, ID federation is what gives you that, not content federation. And content federation introduces a lot of scalability problems, and difficulties deleting comments/etc. Yes, someone can notionally always crawl/cache you, but having it on your server is different from intentionally putting it out into a peer-to-peer CDN, or serving it to a bunch of different pods so they can put it in their members' feeds. Some people don't want that part, they want the content to stay on their self-hosted instance.