azA couple of things that might be of interest:
https://snikket.org/ looks like a nice effort to wrap up a pretty chaotic ecosystem into something more approachable.
https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure a good blog post about the pros and cons compared to matrix.
I'm still rooting for matrix but it's not without it's issues.
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