Sorry I thought we were talking about why federation will or wont succeed success of reddit and facebook feel like counterexamples if they can offer for free t

Sorry I thought we were talking about why federation will or wont succeed success of reddit and facebook feel like counterexamples if they can offer for free the privacy controls that most people are satisfied by (you certainly have very little control over your subreddit or your discord - all your shit is plaintext and can get deleted tomorrow if the service provider determines their best interest diverges from yours) I probably agree with you, in that if self hosted solutions were one click installs and modest cost they would be more popular, but I can't tell.