> Why post photos to Facebook or Instagram when you can just put them on a web server
Because push-out services like Facebook actually work, while doing a lot to capture people's attention? Grandma isn't going to your web server without coaching and a lot of repetition and then when she gets Facebook she's going to forget.
It doesn't have to be this way, but it is this way, and the people who self-host and decentralize (and I do host a good chunk of my stuff myself so I include myself in this) mostly do it for themselves. The UX for normal people sucks.
Because push-out services like Facebook actually work, while doing a lot to capture people's attention? Grandma isn't going to your web server without coaching and a lot of repetition and then when she gets Facebook she's going to forget.
It doesn't have to be this way, but it is this way, and the people who self-host and decentralize (and I do host a good chunk of my stuff myself so I include myself in this) mostly do it for themselves. The UX for normal people sucks.