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I get thy stand on this, personally I also have to compromise my software freedom to register my domains, but again OP asked to avoid X and saying after doing X you won't have to is not answering the question.

The question wasn't about avoiding installing but running proprietary software.

The separation is pedantic, but you can have dynamic websites without JS or with free ones. The argument is basically the server-side software only see the data you input, but client-side malware can extract information or do other nasty things you can't observe or prevent.

Gandy or namecheap

I'm pretty sure they require proprietary client-side scripts to function as well.

guess which type of person prefers which rhetoric

The answer would surprise you, see The Righteous Mind for elaborations, but TL;DR while the US Republicans succeed at capturing morally more diverse population, especially (and ironically) the rural and working-class, the US Democrats still fail to cater to or even acknowledge foundations other than care, liberty and fairness.

We use Maddy, which is pretty easy to set up.

isync can be used for archiving IMAP into maildir format, which is readable by all MUAs.

Its market share defeats the point of self-hosting.

If you have a static IPv6 address you can host your own authoritative DNS locally and use it for IPv4.

Original article (in French) so gaggle doesn't know what one reads.

My taste is mainstream enough that I just go with Wikipedia from artists I already know, and once a year, the Grammys.

Is it an aggregator? How about directly subscribing to web feeds?