And if you don't want some govt to take down a single provider like what happened with Lavabit email vis-a-vis backup, go with a distribute (multi-provider) sol

And if you don't want some govt to take down a single provider like what happened with Lavabit email vis-a-vis backup, go with a distribute (multi-provider) solution like Tahoe LAFS https://leastauthority.com/ https://leastauthority.com/ The proxy is run locally and all encryption happens locally, so it's end-to-end encrypted.