This right here sums it up nicely: Image

The whole shtick with Fediseer is to pressure instances into falling in line under threat of defederation. It’s reasonably effective, most small instances would struggle when cut off from chunks of the federated network they’re trying to be a part of.

I also think most Admins probably hope to get some money coming in through donations, and you need to be reasonably vanilla and attract new people for that to work.

We really don’t need donations to keep running, in fact we don’t even ask. I’ll be damned if I let some random Internet dude with an over-inflated sense of self-importance tell me who I can or can’t allow on the instance I run as a hobby, as to not offend his political sensibilities.