Help needed running syncthing in the background on macOS

So since syncthing binary needs syncthing and syncthing.old, shouldn’t I just move the entire directory as it is into bin? I want to ensure I’m following best practices.

On a side note, where is the data stored?

I think of moving syncthing to docker, but would like to move all the data from my local machine to docker so I don’t have to set up all the directories manually again.