Which is also stupid since at least for playback you can just put the phone up to your ear as you would for a phone call and the sound switches to the top speaker.

Almost, Switzerland is also part of Schengen.

They offer OpenVPN profiles for their VPNs so you can use them on basically any platform where that’s available.

Think so too

Nein!

Ignoring that email is already federated. You can also setup your own lemmy/kbin instance and create your own user there without an email.