Trying to redefine “self-hosted” to suit your purposes does not benefit anybody but people trying to make “self-hosted” a feel-good meaningless marketing term.
> There's no reason to tell any of these people "you're doing it wrong".
I’m saying they’re not self-hosting. Everything else is you hearing things.
I would normally obey the rules of debate and answer your litany of questions, but I think that in this case it would not help anybody, as you already know the answers.