I've been using Fastmail for almost a decade now, and extremely satisfied by the service, privacy, features and price.
If you're interested in signing up for it, I have a referral link (the above one isn't it, I'm not that shady) you can use for a 10% discount on your first year.
Good luck with the search.
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No thank you. I've done my best to keep everything Meta out of my life (and by extension, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, etc), despite peer pressure. Throughout its history, Meta (basically le Zuck and friends) have demonstrated their unquenchable greed and with it their immeasurable ego to justify their actions, however immoral.
I don't use Gmail. I pay for a service that provides me email and respects my privacy. If you want to use Gmail, be my guest. Should you? Definitely not. Same goes for Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and the latest incarnation: Threads. If I want to talk to people on Threads, I'll create a Threads account.
Thank you for your reply. I might just bite the bullet, considering the price is not as high as the other options.
Another good resource which has helped me during the transition from Reddit: sub.rehab.