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 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.