https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-with-whatsapp-eu/

No, Signal announced they won’t implement interoperable messaging.

So basically GNU style formatting?

C C C

Gosh, I love and hate C.

Spamming pornographic depictions of minors

requires a ProtonMail account to download files

Whyyy (for compensation, I know, buy whyyy)

I made the switch too earlier this year from a Samsung Galaxy S10e to an iPhone 12 and I agree to all of your points.

The only thing I liked much more on Android were the notifications. Android’s notification are so much more flexible with the option to customise each different kind of notification for each app, to have silent notifications and “collapsed” ones that do not show a marker in the status bar.

Speaking of that, it is annoying that on iOS there is no indicator in the status bar if you have a notification, so that you always have to pull down to check for new ones.

Beside that, Apple ecosystem is so incredibly well integrated and in my opinions feels overall smoother than Android.

EDIT: changed tone a little bit

Qwant (but I hate all search engines nowadays)

You shouldn’t use a glass but a hose instead.

If you do only web and mail you could consider a web space instead of a VPS. For example Netcup.eu offers packets which include email, Ionos offers one mail account per user account too I think.

Also as you said self hosting emails is quite some pain because Gmail, Microsoft etc blacklist small mail servers rather quickly. Depending on your motivation you could also use Protonmail or mailbox.org as mail provider with your own domain.

Anyway, Debian is a solid choice due to long support times.

Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)

Right. Lemmy would need at least an option for admins to not show content from certain instances in the All feed. And overall more sophisticated tools for moderating remote content (e.g. side wide mods that aren’t as powerful as admins but still can remove federated posts)

Porn is kinda difficult. There are probably few people who want to moderate and more importantly be liable for pornographic content hosted on their servers. Many Hoster also explicitly forbid adult content.

Not impossible but someone would have to do it ^^

I could also totally see something like naughtyverse.xxx as domain name.