It's just about time to use older laptops or netbooks only running Linux or Qubes OS and VPN software like Lantern just to post freely & safely online.

by Dark_Shroud
Here is part of my big alternative list.
Email:

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• Scryptmail – Free, based in US, end-to-end encryption.
• Protonmail – A fully encrypted email service, hosted in Switzerland.
• msgsafe.io – Private, encrypted, online communication. For everyone
• Tutanota – A fully encrypted email service, hosted in Germany.
• Mailfence – Based in Belgium, end-to-end encryption with Digital Signatures.
• VFEmail – Since 2001, providing businesses and end-users a quick and convenient way to ensure their own security when it comes to email.
• Unseen.is – Private and Secure. Messaging, Calling, Email and Hosting from Iceland.
• Outlook – The only full-service Gmail competitor.
• virtru – Free for personal use, outlook encryption plug-in.
• TorBirdy – an extension for Mozilla Thunderbird that configures it to make connections over the Tor network.

Encrypted Messenger Software:

• Telegram (My pick) – Similar to What’s App only independent, secure, & on all major platforms including the desktop.
• Signal – Encrypted FOSS messenger, only on iOS & Android.
• Threema – Designed to generate as little data on servers as possible, end to end encryption.
• BBM – Old school with a big user base, fully encrypted, & has a feed/channel system.
• wire – Simple, secure, private—always end-to-end.
• Ricochet – Anonymous instant messaging for privacy through the TOR network.
• Tox.chat – Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.
• Unseen.is – Private and Secure. Messaging, Calling, Email and Hosting from Iceland.
• Matrix – Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication.

Password Managers:

• Keepass
• LastPass
• Enpass

Mobile OS Alternatives:

• BlackBerry, Powered by Android
• Cyanogen OS
• Lineage OS – Formerly Cyanogen Mod.
• CopperheadOS – “A hardened open-source operating system based on Android.”
• Sailfish OS – “Open source and developed by the Finnish mobile company Jolla Ltd. and the Sailfish OS community.”
• silent circle – “Silent Circle is a secure communications company offering mobile devices, software applications, and communication management services to the enterprise.”
• Windows 10 Mobile

OS Alternatives:

• Qubes OS – A reasonably secure operating system, what Snowden uses.
• Haiku – Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

Social Media alternatives:

• Gab.ai – Twitter alternative, waiting list to join.
• MINDS – “Your social network,” Open Channel based social media network.
• Diaspora.com – Decentralized online social world where you are in control. Intergrates into other social networks.
• Steemit – a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards.
• BBM – Old school with a big user base, fully encrypted, & a feed/channel system.
• seenlife – Privacy concious Facebook competitor.
• Movim
• GNU social
• Grassfire – a fully featured social environment that includes user profiles, chat, instant messaging, user groups, user news feeds, media uploading/sharing, discussion forums and much more!
• Mastodon – a free, open-source social network. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication.
• Voat.co – Reddit alternative.

Alernate DNS:

• OpenNIC project
• OpenDNS

VPN/Tunneling Software:

• I2P – The invisible internet project, similar to TOR.
• Freenet – Browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet with strong privacy protections.
• Greycoder – best vpn service reviews.
• Psiphon – “For 10 years, Psiphon has provided open access to the Internet to citizens of countries with information controls and limitations.”
• Lantern – “Better than a VPN”
• Whonix – “offers you the most secure way to surf the web.”

Alternate/Developing web technology:

• I2P – The invisible internet project, similar to TOR.
• Dark Mail Technical Alliance – developing a unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the ‘next-generation’ of private and secure email.
• LEAP – a non-profit dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure encrypted communication.
• ZeroNet – Peer to Peer, Open, free and uncensorable websites.
• IPFS – A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
• Matrix – Matrix is an open standard for decentralized communication.