@EF@mastodon.bsd.cafe @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net My use was as close to "local" — until my provider got acquired — as my specific needs had allowed. In the US, under the current panopticon policies, anything in the US is no longer all that safe (aside from LUKSing my VPS ...which means manually restarting it if it ever stops — like say because of a kernel panic or a VM-move as part of a hypervisor host maintenance outage).