[chokolad]

If that becomes a massive problem - host a relay with different moderation policy.

[NoGravitas]

The scale-down floor for running an ATProto relay or appview is much, much higher than the floor for running a fediverse instance.

[chokolad]

You can scale down as much as you want. You don't need to run full relay if you want to follow only a dozen of accounts. I bet you can run something like that on a raspberry pi or something similar. You will not get the search over all of the network, but that's something you don't get with your personal mastodon instances either.

[ascorbic]

Since sync 1.1 last year, you can run a relay on a relatively small VPS