Well it's just as bad but in a different way.

Big cooperations may not respect me as an individual, but they have a self-preserving interest, a brand image to loose, and are checked by privacy watchdogs.

A Lemmy I stance can be run on any PC in some anonymous guys basement; there really no way of telling.

The thing is, there is really no way to know is trustworthy as a home instance...?

There needs to be a Mozilla-like foundation that builds a competitive product platform for Fediverse that looks slick, is free of bugs, and matches any additional features that Threads might come up with

Doesn't this icon design get confusing?

Don't get me wrong it looks cool; but it seems to me it would take a lot of effort each time to distinguish which app is which