Haven’t seen anyone link this here so I’ll link it myself

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

Some things are outdated, like how you had to give others your phone number (although it’s still necessary for signup) but most of these still hold up

Cromite

Depending on the DE you use, there’s a chance that theres something to manage VPN connections from the network manager, so you dont have to use the actual protonvpn app and still can use their servers

you can download protonvpn config files for that here: https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads

There are still a few nitter instances alive

https://status.d420.de/

god, the replies to their tweet are awful…

I’m gonna call it the Gulf of Chile, because Chile is the best country of chile fuck yeah 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🦅🦅