@wallhackio why do you want to avoid it?
@aescling their good stuff is often not free
@wallhackio self-hosting their even just free icons is a paid feature 
@aescling you can copy-paste the svg source code from their free things very easily from their UI
@wallhackio If all you want is SVGs (or are using a JS bundler), Tabler icons are free and open source, but the font version will run you $9: https://tabler.io/icons . Icomoon has a good DIY font maker too, with a ton of icon sets.
Kidding
@wallhackio FontAwful