What do you mean by &quot;value proposition&quot;? It is free software, not a business opportunity. Not everything is about selling and money.<p>I read about the project just to answer your question, which you could have answered for yourself by reading.<p>You can run your own instance. The source is open, which means it is publicly auditable, you can contribute to it, you can fork it. It is federated. There is not one single global point of failure, which has other implications regarding things like censorship. You are not beholden to a proprietary, profit-motivated service which can do whatever it wants with your data or with the service. It is an attempt to move away from walled gardens.<p>If you distrust US-based services, you can use an instance which is based in Europe or wherever.<p>If you don&#x27;t get it, you don&#x27;t get it.