> Is self-hosting just too inconvenient/expensive/pointless? The answer is in the question: it's the first two. Self-hosting is inconvenient & expensive in com

> Is self-hosting just too inconvenient/expensive/pointless? The answer is in the question: it's the first two. Self-hosting is inconvenient & expensive in comparison to Discord. That's all there is to it. If you can run a SaaS competitor that is: (1) built on an open-source stack, (2) close to being as easy to use as Discord, (3) free to use, you will steal marketshare. Guaranteed. However, bullet-point #3 tends to contravene the first 2.