>Thus saying “People don’t want to run their own servers” is akin to saying “People don’t want to start their own YouTube channel”. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit.
The "promise of web3" has been that there are no centralized giants. The problem isn't one of motivation to be a YouTube creator, it's infrastructure. The cost to becoming a YouTube creator is 0 due to centralization. The cost of building YouTube is millions of dollars. Even in the YouTube case - people don't want to run their servers.
Secondly, Mastodon and Tor do not have mainstream appeal, nor are they platforms on which other economies are built. Their comparison to YouTube is absurd.