This is one of those "technically correct" statements that is mostly useless.
Yes, some people do want to run their own servers. The vast majority -- more than 99%, by the article's own admission -- do not. To me, "people don't want to run their own servers, and never will" is completely accurate.
I am a "nerd" by Moxie's definition, and I mostly do not want to run my own servers. I have a VPS[0] that I use as a playground, and to run some useful but non-critical things, but it doesn't run anything remotely critical, and if it went down for hours or days, it wouldn't be a big deal.
The idea of running my own infra that's critical or at least important to my participation in digital matters does not interest me at all. For a "web0" example, I absolutely would not want to run my own email server. (I did this when I was much younger, and regretted doing so.)
I also disagree that the small, sub-1% faction that will run servers is enough for this web3 decentralization-for-the-masses world. Ultimately someone else is controlling your traffic and your content, and there are a limited number of others you can switch to if you don't like the current steward you've chosen.
[0] And also consider that having a VPS is only partially running my own server. I'm running the OS and applications on it (or, rather, on a VM running on that server), but someone else makes sure the server hardware and network are functioning, and is on the hook to fix them if they aren't.
Yes, some people do want to run their own servers. The vast majority -- more than 99%, by the article's own admission -- do not. To me, "people don't want to run their own servers, and never will" is completely accurate.
I am a "nerd" by Moxie's definition, and I mostly do not want to run my own servers. I have a VPS[0] that I use as a playground, and to run some useful but non-critical things, but it doesn't run anything remotely critical, and if it went down for hours or days, it wouldn't be a big deal.
The idea of running my own infra that's critical or at least important to my participation in digital matters does not interest me at all. For a "web0" example, I absolutely would not want to run my own email server. (I did this when I was much younger, and regretted doing so.)
I also disagree that the small, sub-1% faction that will run servers is enough for this web3 decentralization-for-the-masses world. Ultimately someone else is controlling your traffic and your content, and there are a limited number of others you can switch to if you don't like the current steward you've chosen.
[0] And also consider that having a VPS is only partially running my own server. I'm running the OS and applications on it (or, rather, on a VM running on that server), but someone else makes sure the server hardware and network are functioning, and is on the hook to fix them if they aren't.