> iOS devices, iCloud, FaceTime, unlikely to be using iMessage Attack it piece by piece. I have some experience de-siloing myself, and I have some insight on

> iOS devices, iCloud, FaceTime, unlikely to be using iMessage Attack it piece by piece. I have some experience de-siloing myself, and I have some insight on this. The first and most important thing is that you should (for the most part) not use anything that's a free hosted cloud service. Find a cross platform equivalent to those services and start switching to them. Standards based hosted services are much easier to set up than self-hosting, and makes it MUCH easier to switch out later. The first thing I'd recommend you do is get Signal installed. Figure out which of your friends are on there already, and just start sending them messages from that. Next, register a domain. Your name is a good start, since you'll need it for email (and for, if the privacy landscape in the US continues on its trajectory, self-hosting) Here are some good (non exhaustive) cross-platform alternatives that I use or have used: - icloud photos: Google Drive, Smugmug (my fav), Flickr - icloud mail/contacts/calendars: Fastmail (mail + card/caldav syncing) - imessage/facetime: signal (im aware there's other chat clients but signal is me and my friends' go to. Discord, whatsapp, telegram, etc also exist) - safari: Firefox with account set up I pay less than $150 a year, and I get phone or email support with a real person for all of the services I use. I use an iphone, apple watch, with windows 10 on a laptop, and desktop linux. It all works together pretty well, and it really wasn't that hard to establish.