I only do self-hosting for personal/family purposes, and both my mother and my girlfriend have access to all the family-related data.

My personal stuff will go with me to the grave, but I doubt they need prints of my thesis and stuff like that.

Loops.

However, of a dozen instances that exist, only the main one - loops.video - functions well and serves a diversity of content. It’s still in heavy development, but technically, ActivityPub is already included.

Quiet majority of Linux users when someone starts with Arch:

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Flatpak is a godsend when you don’t want to manage a mess.

Try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

It’s practically Arch minus elitist culture minus breaking all the time minus having to manually manage anything and everything. Also, it has properly set snapshots by default, so almost any screw-up can be reversed.

Expects user to solve many issues manually, and as such requires some Linux experience.

Also, showing newbies the latest and greatest makes for a better presentation, and Linux develops so fast the 2-year cycle makes grand shifts.

Arch and derivatives always act weird on my system when the time comes to move files.

I never figured out the root cause, but after like two months of use when I move or download files, the system lags extremely bad and hogs all the RAM.

Works just fine on any other distros.

Also PeerTube

The community push, mainly. But there seemed to be a PR campaign to capitalize on it. I don’t know if there were official adverts.

There already are quite a few instances actually, but they’re all trash tier for now, except for the dev-operated loops.video

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn’t have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.