Self-hosting your own platforms equates to digital sovereignty in this age. Tech has transformed into a feudalistic landscape of extraction, and no longer is the internet free domain.
Instead, we are force-fed ads based on clicks and screen time. We are tracked across multiple browser tabs to better target ads and increase SEO for bogus companies that pay for better adwords.
The internet is now a product, a plethora of bots orchestrating algorithms.
At what point, do we stop?