I've found a quick way to sign up to a bunch of 3rd party cloud services anonymously(ish) without KYC for those on the start of the journey (like me):
1. Get a Proton email address.
2. Sign up to Github.com with Proton email address (enables registration/sign-in/SSO to several services without KYC.
This let me sign up for Tailscale so I can connect to my node via VPN, anywhere.
3. For services where you need 2FA to register, use SMS4sats to get a mobile number where you can receive text verification codes for a variety of services.
How to get the Sats KYC-free? Use P2P eg Robosats, Peach.
I'm just getting started, but hopefully this helps someone.
I'm still not sure which search engine is relatively trustworthy, so I'm using Whoogle for now. Dead easy to run on your own server, and then to set up as default in Brave/Firefox. Works great!
I love not having to fight a curated feed on here, unlike Twitter where I constantly have to mute depressing/paranoid shit, stuff I'm not interested in, random videos of extreme violence etc. Very refreshing! Made me realise how damaging that shit is for your state of mind. But here, what you follow is what you get WYFIWYG
Changed my life. Doc recommended I reduce cholesterol by doing 1.5x this amount: I reduced it by ~75% in 6 months and lost 10kg. Not too much commitment once you're used to it either - about 4 hours per week is less than I spend on Twitter!