@takeshitakenji I think that it keeps the idealist "install you own instance" moto far away from being reached, because of blatant technical elitism. Most people don't know how to launch an SSH session. But maybe, if they're using a Linux distribution, even a user-friendly one, like for human beeings or so, they might be one day know how to update their system with the used package manager. I don't expect them to learn how to use #git so thet can start a !gnusocial instance.