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.

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