As long as you onboard them with the ElementX/SchildichatNext(better fork of element) mobile client, their experience and setup should be fairly future proof. Its still changing and growing for sure but the most important stuff is finally working now and the new call systems is a huge improvement.

But yeah if you want zero metadata, your only choice is P2P stuff like Briar.

And its actually a post calling out people blindly opposed to DEI without really knowing what it stands for

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/29888754