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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?

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[–] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wish Rocket Chat got more attention

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I bailed on rocketchat a few years ago for Mattermost and never looked back. Rocketchats update cycle was insane, sometimes two releases in a week but often several a month. A few pdates required full database dumps and manual tweaking. It just wasn't for me.

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 1 points 9 months ago

I have run it for years, and I wish they weren't so limiting and heavy-handed in trying to force people into a paid subscription.