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There are legitimate reasons for creating a “low-usage” server to host your personal account, so you have full control over federating etc.
If we start assuming all small instances are spam by default, we’ll end up like email now—where it’s practically impossible for small sites to run their own mail servers without getting a corporate stamp of approval from Google.