@ChrisUplus @zacrellin I can answer that for us: we are a smallish nonprofit with a small and overworked development team with a huge backlog. I (from the audience side) can set up an account to post here on my own. Our dev team needs to prioritize creating an instance against all the work they do. And the fediverse-credibility gain of having our own instance instead of letting someone else do it is hard to stack up against core improvements in our website.