I disagree. The point of de-googling can be to get more independent, yes. But it can also be to get away from the monopoly and power of google and the other large internet companies. I cannot see how many people will start self-hosting in the near future, this is a viable solution only to tech-savy people. Instead, we should also look for other, more convenient ways to change how the internet is organized. Someone already mentioned ente as an alternative to google photos. Ente is as far as I can tell a privacy-respecting company. By using services like this or also kagi, people are contributing as well to another type of internet. We can either have our own hardware like you and selfhost. Or we pay others for their services, but with money not with our data. In general we certainly need a diversification of the internet.