I mean being charged with facilitating international piracy in an age where big corporations are using whatever they can as an in to harvest your data is pretty pro privacy IMO, but I get what you're saying. By no stretch of the imagination were his actions guided by anything other than profit.
If ALL featured every server running Lemmy, it would be very different and very busy. As it stands, there's servers running Lemmy that your ALL never sees simply because it doesn't know they exist and they're busy AF too.
You know what I've come to realise about Lemmy. It's only as good at the amount of work that you put in. By that I mean, most of Lemmy is like a secret hipster bar that you have no idea where it is until you know where it is and that's Lemmy, you need to find the communities that you want or it will look like a tumbleweed convention.
Landed on Navidrome. The UI is nice enough and the third party app support is cool. My only bit of disappointment is that Musicolet doesn't support it natively.
So the plan as it currently stands is to do real time photo backups with Immich and then back that up to a hetzner storage plan. But it's just a plan for now since I haven't even installed Immich yet. But the thinking is that it's cheaper than Ente, which looks good and gives me more wiggle room.
The beauty is the extension over alternatives is that it gives you a list of alternatives. Ping them and switch to the quickest loading one.