So many great comments here, from thinking people who often struggle with the same thing. I have my own story with its ups and downs.

My view of privacy these days for the most part is of owning my data. If my information is on my own server/devices and off the cloud then I have it private for the most part.

This can sound contradictory at times, for example: Signal is not private to me because my chats and data is still only available through their app and only their app, and a plain text file ilcan be more private if only stored locally. For the most part though, this model works and allows me to think id something is intended to be private or public.

I see, thanks! Even if it doesn’t work, it shows what it’s blocking based on an open source list of people updating it constantly. This is good.

There are places that embrace the old. For instance, I discovered micro.blog not too long and and I’m loving it. Not to mention the federation and all of their instances (micro.blog works with mastodon)