Bookmarking this. How about a photo library category under photos and grafics

Thank you. Was going to suggest matrix/elements. But you explained it better ;)
It has really improved the last years. Especially the e2e encryption key sharing, and verfication system vs what was before.

Debian stable on servers. Debian testing on the daily driver.
Gives you a rock solid server, that will pull absolutly no suprises.
And your daily driver gives you a playground for what comes in the next upgrade.

For a foss project irc logs of channels are important makes irc into google able knowledge. For privacy, use matrix and encryption.

For matrix there is a no for client removes image metadata. Did you check all clients? I would imagine it was client dependent.