The fact that people say shit like "I really respect the fact that you manage to make do without Google" kinda shows me how up that paddle-less creek we are.

You're not quitting heroin. You are saying "Oh its cool I don't need these services I didn't have anyway before"

@ohyran I'm starting the journey and all but my established emails and youtube are easy peasy. What email(s) do you use if you don't mind me asking of course :)

@eilidhbranch I have one from my internet provider, and one from a webhosting service.
The one from my internet provider is kinda finnicky to set up on email apps - and the one from my webhosting service (which is crap) is not all that when it comes to spam detection.

I also signed up to one of the many secure ones that I planned to use as a shopping account but never really got around to.

@eilidhbranch so essentially I picked "any email provider I already had for free".
So perhaps not to helpful for you :/
@ohyran That's what most people seem to say! I'll just float around for a bit until I find something to settle on. I've had Gmail accounts since 2007 I think, It's weird to be changing.