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The possible problem with that is someone will eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them. It's what happened with email. I think you can still self-host an email server, though, it's just a matter of running it well and communicating with the people that run blacklists if you get on one.
Spammers wouldn't even have to run Lemmy to spam, as they could have a spamming script that uses ActivityPub directly. I really hope that doesn't become widespread...
It definitely will, if it makes financial sense. Spamming and cybercrime is a highly competitive market with low barriers to entry.