diff --git a/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py b/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
index 373afdd..ddd0fea 100644
--- a/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
+++ b/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from scraper.management.commands._util import require_lock, InvalidResponseExcep
 SEED = 'mastodon.social'
 TIMEOUT = 20  # seconds
 NUM_THREADS = 16  # roughly 40MB each
-PERSONAL_INSTANCE_THRESHOLD = 5  # instances with < this many users won't be crawled
+PERSONAL_INSTANCE_THRESHOLD = 10  # instances with < this many users won't be crawled
 MAX_STATUSES_PER_PAGE = 100
 STATUS_SCRAPE_LIMIT = 5000
 INSTANCE_SCRAPE_LIMIT = 50  # note: this does not include newly discovered instances! they will always be crawled.