It's always been in the best interest of the fedi for people to make their own instances. I had my own for almost a year or so, until I was done with it and came back to NCD, although of course it could be restarted at any time.

I hope these guys who all came to fedi recently, some of them make their own instances. We already had theblab.org form from the exodus of gab or whatever but they are a very very salty nasty bunch of people.

Nothing is stopping anyone with a couple hours on their hands from starting their own instance.

So for those on a server - it's alright to ask them to contribute financially to that server. It's not like the services end just at activitypub.

Hope you're well.