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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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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I've had a little snikket (prosody docker, xmpp) sever running for a year. monacles or cheogram are just fine, playing games with the fam in the chats is really cool.

dino or gajim on desktop.

calls work well, but android doesn't treat it as an actual phone call (home assistant automations based on phone state won't work)

and I've just now gotten direct messaging tied into home assistant, so i can use it for general notifications. it'd be awesome to get encryption though.

omemo is a bit of a pain, but they've all caught on.

but yeah i mean, very little hassle