Tor.
And the correct term is anonymizing proxy. Having the term VPN overloaded to mean two completely distinct things is rather annoying and/or confusing.
Certainly not as powerful as common office suites, but https://cryptpad.fr/ is not only open-source but also has already running instance (and has end to end encryption for your documents)
https://syncthing.net/ is a good general file synchronizer. Requires devices too be online simultaneously to sync, but gives you transport encryption with forward secrecy.
It's probably the best one when it comes to web-based videocalls. I had much better experience with native apps (e.g. Mumble) when it comes to sound quality though.
For anonymous proxy (which is what you seem to mean instead of VPN) I just keep using Tor for almost everything. Sure, some services do block it - more than your usual commercial offering. But TBF that mostly saves me time from tying to deal with them.
Slight difference is that Zuck has had control from the start, whereas other companies might have had "don't be evil" leadership that was… optimized away for financial reasons.
Not that it really matters nowadays. Just an observation.
Honestly it was mostly a Discord competitor if anything. One with FOSS clients for desktop and Android.
The private chat is baseline implementation just to tick a box rather than anything practically useful.
Re profiling, I don't think instances will bother doing that (unless they start running ads). However, they also don't prevent anyone from building that profile themselves from observable behavior. And creating such database might constitute original work by itself. Now, they don't get as fine-grained interactions as you would with tracking-infested sites. But they will get the most valuable ones such as active participation.
EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:
Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:
Look at https://simplex.im/ then. It's work in progress but the design is good.
But I'm glad to have a better Signal client too.
I'm probably missing something, but wouldn't it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.
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GDPR explicitly exempts government entities. Still, way better than not having it IMO.
Regulating governmental intrusions into privacy would take a completely separate and probably much larger bill.