My friends and I are hosting a Linux and FOSS group chat to have some casual chat, help, and anything related to the topic really. We chose this platform to chat on to keep a privacy preserving way to engage with one another.
https://signal.group/#CjQKIBshKeuikl5HfagdB46bXpGOyQf_4cVvO3vUMs71DiB9EhDEbE8mS3EPYL0e9CQWHBsy
I agree here. As much as I hate Discord, it would be much better geared for this. Have you considered Revolt? I haven’t tried it myself, but it is the most prominent open source solution to Discord.
I was by no means suggesting using Discord instead. Just from a purely practical perspective, it is very different.
I didn’t mean to imply that you were suggesting Discord. I was just agreeing with you that channels would really help.
Sorry about that. I meant that OP could check out Revolt for an open source chat that had channels.
Revolt is great, but still lacks good audio and video support. Me and friends use Mumble now instead till they add good support.