[hamandcheese]

I'd love to be wrong, but I suspect that it is quite a narrow niche of users that a) are willing to run their own identity and auth servers but b) aren't so persnickety about their software that they would be cool with some wizard to set it all up automagically.

[efitz]

Microsoft sold (maybe still sells) Home Server and Small Business Server which were turnkey solutions that included directory services, file & print sharing, and other stuff.

[detourdog]

I very much think everyone should a person should have a personal identity server. I think it should be buried enough that the user is managing “friend” objects transparently.

[KAMSPioneer]

Well once you remove the set of users who want Windows Active Directory, then yes, I agree. :)