I see tons of posts about #selfhosting here, and it makes sense. It’s a great option for people who can.

But this excludes the vast majority of regular people who do not have the technical skills to run a data center.

We own it to everyone to make open cloud services that:

- do not put profit first
- do not “own” or “monetize” their users’ data
- resist enshitification by letting users take their data somewhere else
- are as easy and straightforward as the “closed” status quo