Gregory's Server
It isn't that tough to self-host, and then not only are you participating, you're helping to preserve the decentralization and robustness of the ecosystem. Centralization is what killed big tech, it's too easy to corrupt a single point of failure.
The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less any one provider needs to pay for hosting since instances only need to serve transactions between users that interact somehow. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less a loss of one provider damages the ecosystem. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more points of failure need to be corrupted to kill or take over the ecosystem.
The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less any one provider needs to pay for hosting since instances only need to serve transactions between users that interact somehow. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the less a loss of one provider damages the ecosystem. The more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more distributed the fediverse becomes, the more points of failure need to be corrupted to kill or take over the ecosystem.