That’s true, though you can at least make sure the ISP that examines your data is in a country that doesn’t care about these things as much, like Portugal. You can do similar with a mainstream VPN, but then you’re sending your data to an IP your local ISP & law enforcement is more likely to be suspicious of.

self host on an obscure vps, I recommend buyvm

lemmy.world is trash, it’s brought in and hosts the worst parts of reddit I was hoping to avoid by moving to lemmy. Wish I could just block that whole instance.