The scraper blocklist on crowdsec requires a paid subscription, though, or did you find another workaround?

Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.

Thats a problem with silos (where one owner hosts all the servers) in general. You will have to switch the entire ecosystem once the inevitable enshitification sets in. It’s a good idea to switch to something open source and federated (where many different non profit organisations and even self hosting individuals host many different servers). That way you can migrate your history and contacts to another server of necessary but never have to switch the ecosystem again. Think it how email works, it’s the best known federated system. If you don’t like you email provider anymore you can just chose another one and still keep your contacts and messages on a client like Thunderbird forever. Xmpp and matrix are the hottest candidates in my opinion, but you can check the messenger matrix that was linked in a comment above to see what suits you best.

I did something very similar via netcup tiny vps, nginx and wireguard. I could post my setup notes tomorrow if someone needs them.

It’s true there are a lot of better alternatives to jami when it comes to privacy/security: Here’s a good comparison table:

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

Matrix seems a bit overkill. I think they would be better off with something like gotify.

Take a look at dontkillmyapp.com to see if your phone provider hinders your messages.

There is unified push as Google alternative as well, which works with the schildichat matrix client.