Living conditions there continue to improve, while ours decline. A whole lot of boogie man bullshit. This article is intentionally fear mongering.

The CCP isn’t putting in a back door requiring on-site access in your litter box.

Yeah, fuck yeah.

“China bad” because western media says so. Please disregard the billions of dollars spent by western governments to ensure you keep thinking that way.

It’s just another capitalistic country no better or worse than Canada or the USA. Though, the Chinese government has said their intention is to move towards socialism, so good for them. I’m stuck over here witnessing fascist billionaires loot the government/working class.

You’re so brave. I love self-hosting everything I possibly can, but I can’t get myself to babysit email.

I just tried Thunderbird on Android recently. It was very nice. Hopefully the iOS version is excellent as well.

Apple Mail is one of the iOS apps I actually love. Since you would just be using IMAP and SMTP, you wouldn’t really be locked into anything. Maybe you’re overthinking it. I definitely tend to. Being locked into any proprietary system makes me feel claustrophobic.

Best of luck to you.