I have a self-hosted nextcloud that was not to hard to set up. Its video chat quality is not that good, but that could be on my client side. It is on a $5/m Vultr vps but that's just because it was convenient to spin one up near my geolocation to save a little latency. Otherwise an even cheaper vps wouuld be fine.
Ask HN: Safest place for young kids to chat to friends online?
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#32Messenger Kids is really good for this: https://messengerkids.com/ It's made by a gross company, but they have ridiculously tight access controls.
No one should use a Facebook/Meta product let alone their kids.
Re: Ask HN: Safest place for young kids to chat to friends online?
#33Jami (https://jami.net/) has the advantage of keeping your child's communication private and lacks the ability to find outside groups (like phone calls), while having the features they would want to have to interact and being multi-platform.