Fluxer has plans to federate and use E2EE by default, and they're making self-hosting a lot easier now too, on top of being FOSS. The audio and screen streaming are already on-par with Discord and they have almost 500k users. The main Dev is in the chat talking to users every day, delivering the most requested features.

Also, Check it out if you haven't

Upvoting this obviously human response

They're adding federation very soon, it's already much better than it was 1 month ago. In 2 months I bet you anything it will have Federation and all the smaller feature parity with Discord. Also, I'd rather give Hampus my data than the Discord team who sells it to the highest bidder

This is how the Fluxer switch begins

Just buy one without a microphonemicrophone from AliExpress? Cheaper and easier than worrying about it. Usually the third or fourth option will be a mic-less version

Luckily my MP is one of the good ones. That's a nice website, makes it easy to contact your MP based on your postal code