Indeed I only offered up my experience since you mentioned self-hosting and family.

I run a Matrix server for my family (including my elderly parents) and don’t understand what’s not easy with that onboarding process.

Agree, this is exactly what I went with recently in the same situation.

That’s an incredibly strange statement. Do you know just how poor large parts of Russia is? Area, sure. Economy, no. Educated people, no. Well trained military, no.

They had to go to North Korea for additional solders and ammo.