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

you might say… Reddfugees?

Sorry.

you might say… Reddfugees?

Sorry.

you might say… Reddfugees?

Sorry.

I’d like to say glad to bere here, but tbh it makes me sad to leave behind my Reddit account of almost a decade.

Lemmy look promising though (and still slightly confusing :)

I’m curious; is this instance pysically running on a local private server somewhere or in the cloud in some data center?