benjamin melançonthere is free public hosting i've used a little with mutual aid groups in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and @agaric we like to use the paid hosted plan in order to support development of the Zulip software (#LibreSaaS !) and to not add to our pile of self-hosted tools. EDIT to add, the ability to have guests on the paid plan we've found consistently more generous than documented.
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