Ulrich

the developers chose the method purposely

They chose it because it’s often the only way they can distribute packages to Ubuntu users. Which was the whole point all along; Canonical taking control of app distribution.

Oh so you are essentially personally maintaining the sources list?

Sounds like Obtainium on Android.

The thing that concerns me is that it downloads an unofficial source.

Oh. Cool.

Counts what?

OK but what does it do?

I see. What about Matrix?

Jitsi is close but it purely does video calling.

Not sure what you mean by that. Turn off the camera and you’ve got an audio chat.

I want something that is a chat where guests can join a group with a link.

That’s exactly how Jitsi works.

Signal is not self hosted but they also support videoconference style calls.

I think Mattermost is intended to be just that.

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Privacy is what protects you against criminal charges or being banned by your ISP

It absolutely is.

no, that’s not what notorious means. It just means a lot of people know about it.