Just to clarify, I am not suggesting signing up on a random server with no track record.
The links in the above posts are to lists of servers that have very specific requirements to be listed (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant and https://fedi.garden/about-this-site/).
Also, many of these servers have been going for years without problems. You can browse the servers on fedi.garden listed by year of foundation:
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