I am looking at #Stoat (formerly #Revolt) and #Hubzilla as alternatives to Google Chat and Discord.
Stoat is more like discord in appearance and probably would feel more familiar for those users, but it's also very 18+ forward for a school project to coalesce on and it's not actually fedi, i think? (Their support is a bluesky channel, which I'm not going to join)
Hubzilla doesn't have a dedicated app, which i think people would like, and I'm not sure it does chatrooms.
Stoat is more like discord in appearance and probably would feel more familiar for those users, but it's also very 18+ forward for a school project to coalesce on and it's not actually fedi, i think? (Their support is a bluesky channel, which I'm not going to join)
Hubzilla doesn't have a dedicated app, which i think people would like, and I'm not sure it does chatrooms.