China blocks ESNI and DoH. You have to find a DoH server that is not well known and have to fake the host name.

But if you actually do that, lol

I use brave, but only the search

Funding an existing project like Lemmy is different than hiring people to create a lemmy

It’s not necessary

You think email is a human right? It’s a box to send password resets. If websites all used one time paaswords, I wouldn’t need my email. You don’t actually send messages to people over email, do you?

We have things like Signal and Matrix to facilitate actually communicating with people.

Last time I sent an email to someone it bounced. Imagine spending time writing a letter and the mailman returns it to you

Who said anything about essential services? It’s the nonessential services that I have a problem with

What is the search engine your government hosts? Or maybe they do email? Do tell

I trust neither

The government, running a service that doesn’t suck? Call me when it happens