Wait, do you mean that your ff account share data with pocket, whether you ever signed into it or not?

If communities belonged to “lemmy” you would have Reddit. If anything would be forcefully federated it would be a mess. IMHO it’s the right balance. I get your concerns about being confusing but given the state of development of the platform most of it will be solved by a better UI and better instance data synchronization policies, etc…

I didn’t get the part on Firefox too much: isn’t pocket just a way to serve (non user tailored) ads? As long as they don’t sell your data and its not invasive it should be fine…they have to sustain themselves is some way