Why is it a controversial opinion? Mailspring is a great email client. I’ve been using it for a year now.

And for rating music albumoftheyear.org which for me is superior to RYM

I use Sonnar and Radarr but with qBitTorrent as download clients

VPNs don’t make things safer. You need to use reliable trackers like 1337x. VPNs can hide your traffic from your ISP. If you’re living in some smaller country you might get await with seeding without VPN and without getting notified by your ISP.

I’ve stumbled upon this Github repo listing Lemmy instances and their differences