[jethro_tell]

You buy a domain from wherever, you set it up on Google like anyone can, and not just techies, normies get domains all the time, then, you use pop and download your email.

Is that more than someone might think of? Maybe, but it's not that far fetched if it's something you want to do.

What's hard to get a normal person to do is distrust Google or Facebook et. al.

Edit to point out that normal people who are marginalized by society actually know about this stuff and already do things like this, like having pre-warmed backup accounts on social media platforms avoiding most major banking platforms or diversifying payments platforms to limit impact and hosting their own websites.

There are a lot of simple things you can do to become less dependent and people who tent to find themselves in those places can seek these things out.