I’m not sure if this is the right place but me and my friend group have lately become privacy conscious and wanted to stop using discord and other types of social media, and only log onto self hosted options that only we can access.
we’ve eliminated something like Revolt (now named Stoat due to it missing ideal features and the developers being anti-decentralized (as well as being extremely hostile to the userbase noticably…)
Does anyone have any idea what would be an ideal service to use?


Selfhosted matrix with Continuwuity server, ditch Synapse for small servers.
See https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=matrix%3Astart
To me the added value are the bridges to other chat platforms