I care a bit more about Lemmy's future and growth that to fuss about an app collecting information. I don't think anyone complaining about the privacy actually read their privacy terms.
The main data collection post I assume you saw was misleading and isn't a true list of what data is collected. Viewing their privacy policy will tell you exactly what it collects and it's only a handful of things.
But so long as everyone uses what they like then it shouldn't matter 🙂
The bit about using NY and CA as target practice was insane to me, it's hard for me to understand how it could become so bad. Maybe it's just me, but surely at some point you'd thing "jfc what am I saying/doing"
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