I was not familiar with MinIO until this post and I see now 694+ upvotes! Can anyone give me some background on why MinIO is/was so used? So many people want t

I was not familiar with MinIO until this post and I see now 694+ upvotes! Can anyone give me some background on why MinIO is/was so used? So many people want to self-host S3 compatible software? Just asking, very curious about the whole thing!