Spent a little time reading about the Will Wheaton mastodon fiasco of 2018 on this old post https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/ by @nolan which led to this more recent related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594961 and it seems that if you're a celebrity or a politician you should run your own instance. That certainly seems like a pretty good business opportunity for someone.