> Which, as someone who is perfectly able to rev up a virtual server and install some web-app, including configuring it to use some shared auth backend, isn't a

> Which, as someone who is perfectly able to rev up a virtual server and install some web-app, including configuring it to use some shared auth backend, isn't as groundbreaking as I hoped for. While you may be capable of doing that, you are part of a very small set of people. We aren't going to see a revolution where everyone starts using self-hosted applications unless everyone is in fact capable of doing so. And without a large userbase to attract developers, the apps you are running on your personal server will never rival SaaS competitors in quality or variety. That in turn means that even people who are happy with the difficulty of self-hosting today have a lot to gain...