That's certainly fair, but at the same time as somebody who does care about this kind of stuff I deeply wish we didn't live in this world of massive centralized walled gardens.

I hadn't heard about this project before, but for a long time I've been thinking it would be nice to have some form of sand-boxed, probably Node based local cloud system.

I think you under-estimate the difficulty to install services locally. Sure popular packages are usually easy, but things with even a little bit less support can take days to get right.