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>But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people.

What's the use case for self hosting ? Since it's supposed to be e2e, does self-hosting buy you anything ?

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It’s a requirement many organizations have - government institutions are a good example. Some might want to not leak any data to the outside world, run it only for internal use, etc.

Depending on the details of the protocol, it might defend against certain patterns of traffic & contact analysis.

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