In 2013, Wired reported in Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet:

In many ways, the Indie Web projects aren't ready yet. Just ask Shanley Kane, a tech product manager in San Francisco. "I used to maintain my own blog using an open source blogging framework," she says. "But ultimately, I'm blogging to write and to share what I've written. Maintaining my own implementation, trying to keep the design current on my own, dealing with things when they broke, and hosting it myself was a distraction from that goal."

With the progress of the FreedomBox, the world may be ready to self host their work.