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Sign up and interact with people? It’s just a social media after all.
To be completely safe I’d just use a VM, if you think that is an overkill then I suggest Bubblewrap.
I have no complaints about the OS itself and I really like the package manager. The wiki is lacking tho, which is not an issue 99% of the time cause I can still check archwiki, but its something to keep in mind.
Post-install was similar to Arch and fairly straightforward, except for having to set up logind
As far as wayland goes it works the same as on any other distro, nothing Alpine specific that you should look out for.
I dislike general artificial intelligence. I understand that it can be a useful tool, but at the same time the thought of being in a world where people’s jobs can be replaced with robots for the sake of profit and you won’t be able to tell whether you are talking with a real person or not repulses me.
cheap is relative, I suggest editing the post and adding a budget
There is no such thing as a safe email client, or an unsafe one for that matter. What’s important is your provider and even then email is inherently unsafe unless you use something like PGP.