Same reason a lot of people don’t change their own oil in their vehicles.

Sometimes it’s just more convenient to pay someone else to do things

Oh wait you’re talking about fediverse instances. For me, I would be worried about reliability. Like if I was travelling and my apartment had a power outage or something

It’s shocking that there hasn’t been more vandalism, or “terrorists” attacks.

Especially since there are so many data centers in rural Texas, where everybody and their dog owns a 300 blackout for hog hunting.

Getting kinda conspiracy theory-ish, but I wonder if there has been a lot of vandalism, but it just hasn’t been reported on and kept hush-hush