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okay so I naïvely assumed FlatHub was an app store but it is actually more like Homebrew or a Linux distro: every FlatHub package has a corresponding repo in FlatHub's GitHub organisation, and those repos are maintained by… well I don't know, they don't really tell you at all
Snapcraft on the other hand is what I would call an app store: everything has a named publisher, and the idea is that developers will publish their own apps
@hikari edit: see update.
except it's fake. Snapcraft might tell you the author of the software, but not its packager. In my experience it's mostly the opposite.
Edit: just had a look at both websites, and snapcraft has improved a lot showing the actual packager. Flathub is indeed bad, but at least it links to the package source. So I retract all the above.
@hikari Ok, I see where my initial impression came from. The Ubuntu Software desktop client (snap) shows much less information than snapcraft. And the link to the "developer website" won't give you any info about the actual packager. You can contact the packager via email, but that's it.