Thats bullshit. Not all people deserve to be treated as people. Some are just garbage. That includes serial killers and ones mentioned in this article

Poor choice

Ente is self-hostable

Edit: nvm, somebody already pointed that out

This is a valid solution but honestly how is using VPS not depending on third party?

Caddy or any other (reputable) reverse proxy. I think Nginx Proxy Manager would be best for beginner thanks to GUI.