Well, no offense but getting away from Apple should be a great first step to fossify your digital life :)

I just use emails with my friends who are on Whatsapp

One of them migrated from Gmail to Protonmail so maybe he could help move to a “non GAFAM” environment

The SpamBlocker I was refering to is on Android (f-droid), I’m not sure about iOS

https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

I only used Discord with a bunch of friends I play with, no “official game servers” so it was pretty easy

The hard task will be to have some other non-gaming friends to join, because they use Whatsapp (which me and my gaming friends refuse to touch)

AntennaPod is a pretty great podcast player, far better than the one Google did (and abandonned)

Newsblur is the only RSS reader that I’ve found that can apply filters to feeds

I’ve switched from Discord to Element with some friends for daily text chat and vocal chat (video games) and it’s less cluttered than Discord, and the voice even sounds better

SpamBlocker is a better phone/SMS spam filter than the proprietary ones I’ve tried

Firefox (and forks) has been my browser for more than 20 years, I can’t go back to proprietary ones

Recently, Oceans Of Slumber, great combination of beauty and brutality

I also discoverd a few months back Haydee Irizarry from Aversed and Carnivora, but I can’t find any recent stuff with her (at least in metal) which is sad since she seems to be a talented vocalist and musician

But also a good bunch of bands : Jinjer, Kittie, ETHS, Crypta, Stolen Babies, anything with Anneke van Giersbergen

I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot since I only thought about vocalists (Gorod, for example, had a beast of a female drummer on their early albums)

As long as it’s toggleable, cause I like the no margin