Activists should not be using email for activism at all. I agree on mullvad for the VPN. This video does a good job explaining the issues with email for people who need privacy from groups like governments : https://youtu.be/iH626CXyNtE

I also question recommending signal over one of the decentralized alternatives like matrix or simplex, though really that’s probably fine.

What if they gave you the files, with an easy download button ( with rate limits on downloads per user to avoid mass abuse )? Then, Netflix is basically providing a debrid service, which many people who pirate already pay more than 5$ for. Your VPN for torrenting is likely more than 5$. It’s already trivially easy to rip a movie off a website ( even with DRM ), so this is not a real content control loss for them.

IMO the signal matrix bridge solves this problem. It does not do video calls to my knowledge, but it does let me have all my signal messages on all my devices, with no limitations.

And it’s not even a compellingly better alternative than the other options. Gitlab, or gitea, or forgejo are all great.

Hackberrypi CM version looks great