It’s honest. You can trust Ljdawson with your lemmy data, I do, but that’s the nature of closed source.

I don’t think the warning needs to be that big though heh.

It is logical. With open source software, the source code is out there for everyone to see how user data is being handled. But with closed source, you can’t, it’s a black box, so you have to trust the developer on how user data is handled.

I mean yeah, it’s a closed source app. The most that could possibly be collected is your IP alongside browsing habits. Your ISP already does that and definitely doesn’t care who gets it, so anyone who is concerned already uses a VPN.

Makes sense to be on that site, since a lot of Lemmy users are probably interested at least in part due to the FOSS nature of it. Maybe it doesn’t need to be phrased as a “warning” though, more just as an FYI. Seems like it could scare people away thinking it’s a data harvesting tool, but such is life.