I'm in the US and don't have the ability to opt-out of these things.

I used Sync for Reddit for many years but the Lemmy version's privacy policy is not what I was hoping to see. I would love a clarification around what privacy improvements a subscription might add...

Knowing him, he'll forget to remove the first redirect

Hadn't heard of it so I clicked that link and noticed it collects, among other things, location data with no way to request removal. So that's my answer

We don't need billions of users here; just a healthy community.

subreddits as businesses

I'll admit, I didn't have faith that he could, but he actually came up with a worse idea