I am trying to compile a list of common reasons why users don’t move from a big centralized evil™ service to either a self-hosted solution or another more “freedom friendly” option (say Gitlab.com vs Github.com) or some other thing altogether.

While there are ofcourse common regular reasons like “all my friends use it”, I wish to collect reasons specific to particular well-known services and not generic over all centralized services.

Would be super cool if the service you are talking about is well-known among the average Joe (yeah, like Facebook) and not just devs. It should however be well-known among atleast one of the either groups.

Disclaimer: I asked the same question on another link-aggregation community lobsters today itself: https://lobste.rs/s/qwfjab/what_is_keeping_you_from_leaving_large and I want to collect feedback from HN as well ;)