Runbox (Norway) is a good option, good privacy protection and outside of EU chat control zone

Thank you, this is really helpful, a good place to start.

Yep. Edited. Definitely autocorrect’s fault, not my morning brain fog.

No, actually you’re right. I meant wire guard.

I tried piefed.blahaj but with the images being auto expanded by default there’s way too much questionable anime.

Too late. I switched to Runbox last week. Norway != EU