It’s definitely growing but it seems like communities are buckling under that weight and can’t actually maintain the instances properly anymore, that’s the issue. If even a few % of reddit decide to move and be active here instead, it will kill servers (and moderators) all over again.

Ehh, unfortunately it still aint ready. Beehaaw is considering moving off it actually, lemmy.world, kbin, beehaw have all sorts of defederations or domain blocks between them so you can’t even get by with a single account anymore, and feature-wise its still years behind reddit in terms of mod tools.

Reddit is gonna stay simply because for 99% people its still better than the other options.

Please read the article. The data in question, besides the IP that I don’t see how they can get since it’s coming from your instance and not the user directly, is the bare minimum that’s required for AP to even work, and it is the same data that every federated instance is already storing and propagating. The author of the article says as much.

Facebook is a shit company but the privacy of this data is not one of the issues with it. As has been said before already, all of this is already very public, very easy to scrape and it is impossible to prevent it, if you want to keep your profile picture, username and comments private then dont upload them to a federated social network… or well, any social or network at all.