[threeseed]

The only people who want to run their own servers are those who haven't yet experienced the myriad of issues and risks associated with them.

Not only do you have to keep it running at your expense but you need to invest significant time in moderating the content. Lest you allow illegal content e.g. CP to be hosted for which you will be legally responsible.

[codetrotter]

I think the original comment meant running a server for themselves, not necessarily allowing anyone else to create accounts on their servers.

That way you don’t need to moderate.

[capableweb]

That's a risk for people running servers for others, not just for themselves which is what parent is talking about.