Excellent point!

Perhaps, then, I'll reframe this: I hope for greater attention and transparency to aid in navigating available servers by business model. An opt-in directory which may actually help people find independent private servers if that's what they're looking for.

One example I quite liked was the instance run by archive.org. It is strictly for their own employees and not available to the public. If I worked for them, I don't know that I'd opt in -- but I appreciate that it's offered!