I use a similar set up. Librewolf on Linux and IronFox on Android. You could still use a Firefox account to sync, but I wouldn’t. I’ve heard there’s a way to host an older version of Firefox sync locally, but I haven’t looked into it.

No indeed

For the VPN, check out gluetun. Route your torrenting client container through this to funnel all the traffic through a VPN of your choice. I use this for my server.

I just been not buying things most days. Anti-consumerism 2025

Banger

Much less bots and reposts. I feel like there’s less content, but it’s more real than I what I experienced on Reddit for example

Kind of similar, I use Joplin which uses markdown syntax. Then I back that up on a monthly basis to my server manually (just a copy-paste over NFS)