The other benefit is that using self hostable software makes it harder for centralised deployments from screwing users over.
It is harder (but not impossible, and not without it's own inconvenience) for mastodon.social to do a rug pull because there are near-identical alternatives that others (or yourself) host.
It is harder (but not impossible, and not without it's own inconvenience) for mastodon.social to do a rug pull because there are near-identical alternatives that others (or yourself) host.