Have you tried any decentralized messengers?

• session-android

  174 1,693 9.5 Java

  A private messenger for Android.

  

Session: https://getsession.org/

• jami-cli

  136 15 0.0 Rust

  Jami client for terminal

Try Jami https://jami.net/! I'm kind of blown away by how well it works! I originally tried it about a year ago, but it was kind of a pain. My issues with it were fixed when they incorporated UnifiedPush. However, since iPhone will never have something like UnifiedPush, I wouldn't recommend it for iPhone users or people with many iPhone-using friends to convert.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• signal

  18 469 9.7 Go

  A Matrix-Signal puppeting bridge (by mautrix)

  

• databag

  33 737 9.6 JavaScript

  fast & lightweight self-hosted messenger

I personally use databag (https://github.com/balzack/databag); it's open source, secure, and has no data collection. You do have to setup your own server, which if you already self host something else, is not much more than deploying a docker container. There are a bunch of other services to choose from, the most popular being matrix.org.

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