Working in a marketing department I am aware about that all these social/email stuff are just marketing platforms disguised so I decided to put a part my laziness and starting to explore alternative, and more ethical, solutions. The aim is trying to be Gugl-free and living in peace with myself and the others...TL;DR
I am trying to use as email and social network only ethical platform that respect your digital life
Unfortunately you can't get rid off of it totally but you can mitigate its presence, at least until Pursim doesn't decide to release a phone cheaper, my biggest concerns are Gimeil and Giplas, the former has been my current email for a while and the latter has been my favorite source of info since the moment I stopped to use rss feed (I don't why but at a certain point Liferea became to be an hog memory doing my old PC unusable and I stopped to use it).
Found an email that respects your privacy it is not easy but either complicated because: https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems
I was undecided between Posteo.net and Autistici/Inventati (A/I) (Kolab it is really expansive), eventually even if A/I is provided for free I opted for Posteo.net, the main reason was because the Italian domain is a pain in the heck if you live and work in the US, Posteo it easier to spelling and easy to understand.
I understood that a free service is unrealistic without at least a donation, companies like Gugl provides service for free because they make money with your "big data", this might make sense if it was like a fair barter, but a barter must be balanced between the parts and with this IT companies it isn't. With Posteo I decided to buy a plan that for 3 euro monthly provided me 10GB of mail box, I believe is quite cheap and absolutely fair. However is not everything so cool... The webmail is fine but without any emails was awfully slow, the risk that after migrating all the emails can be further slow is quite high. Probably the best way to connect to the mail server is through an email client like Thunderbird and K-9 for Android, let's see if I am right!
Regarding the social network platform I realized that there are a lot of good options, GNU Social, Pump, Mastodon and Diaspora*. I found GNU Social very exciting, so much, that I am thinking to open my personal server to share everything with my family as private node, but I didn't elect it as service. I believed that Mastodon was the right choice but I was wrong, the closer to Giplas (but actually is closer to Feisbuk) was Diaspora* so now I opened an account on it. I really liked it, it is not Giplas but I am convinced it will give me the same nice of use. I will probably need to mix rss feed + Diaspora* to receive the same amount of info that I am usually review during the day because Diaspora* is used by fewer people than Giplas, but as usual the key is adaptation.
However I am just starting to test all these changes but I am confident that at end I will confirm my choices!