I enjoy being in a roll with a good gym schedule, seeing the progress, and the sense of having put the work in.

Otherwise it really depends on the exercise for me : I dislike those that make it hard to breathe. But leg presses, and bicep curls alfeel empowering.

Lifoff seems good but constantly gives me API errors when doing anything in the app

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 :)

Things organically change over time; at some point the clustering you talk about might still happen. Actually network theroy predicts it will happen