Weren't they targeting the same user base as Wordpress? I thought the goal was to get social networking as decentralized as blogging. It isn't hard to host a R

Weren't they targeting the same user base as Wordpress? I thought the goal was to get social networking as decentralized as blogging. It isn't hard to host a Rails app, but it's certainly harder than hosting one in PHP. Especially if you have little or no technical expertise or aren't willing to pay for anything more than shared hosting.