I mean it is open source and you can go with something like lineage or graphineos to get around those things

Commercial data centers. Auto scaling infrastructure and just sheer scale. At $2 it may be at cost or a loss to generate future sales.

Recently got a switch. Digital games are same price as physical, locked to my account/switch and saves don’t move easily between devices. Steam deck, I can play on any hardware that can support it TV, PC laptop games cloud save for free. I can play online games for free. I know that games I buy today will be available in 10 years on my next PC. I only buy carts for the switch cause they give me more flexibility still not even the same as steam.

This is a desicion each Lemmy instance can make. ideally you join smaller grassroots instances that have privacy values and you won’t have to worry