Underrated comment. Posteo is awesome, cheap, and has all the tools you need for mail and calendar things. Proton may give you more, but that's a different query.
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Yes, a while back, but it appears to be lacking key features, see here. This comes from the GrapheneOS circles. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html
Not an expert though, updates or critique highly welcome.
Excellent, thanks for sharing your journey. Some servers could "never handle it" because of all the caching and redundancies?
Slowly I am becoming aware of the limitations of Mastodon, which are also closely related to the managament, it seems, shy of listening to the people. Rebased sounds like my favourite so far, although GoToSocial, as mentioned by @slowwcore@lemmy.fmhy.ml (and folks on Masto) is also worth exploring.
...not many daily EN newspapers, but a few weekly ones, and blogs like https://vietnamweekly.substack.com.
Tools help, and because the Fediverse API is completely accessible, folks have already come up with awesome stuff.
And that's just the beginning.