Discord servers are just groups. Lemmy “instances” are actual separate instances of Lemmy communicating.

They have also had this issue open for 20 years.

And this amounts to just allowing the user to specify a different directory for Firefox on Linux (~/.mozilla is terrible).

Frankly unacceptable.

Blanket statements of a group are harmful.

Blanket, emotional statements are harmful.

The data collected sounds like a nothing-burger. Of course they collect the data you upload, and of course they store data (like messages) that need to continue to be networked to clients.

How they use the data does sound like corporate trash though.