How does it make any difference that it’s required by a third party? That doesn’t really change anything.

Lemmy will continue to be a weird little FOSS niche

This sounds excellent TBH.

It doesn’t say “legitimate use” though, it says “legitimate interest”. If the former has a specific meaning then that specific meaning doesn’t apply to the latter.

My “hot” feed is full of posts from this community.

I’ve gotten used to using the singular form as in…

records.filter((record) => …)

Not saying this way is better but it works for me.