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You can self-host Signal, although you’d need your friends to sign up with your server.
What we really need is a federated messaging platform. I don’t think it’s been done yet, but encrypted email efforts are kinda in that direction.
We have email as an example of federated messaging
Where it’s mainly owned by Google and Microsoft
Federated messaging we've had for ages: XMPP
A modern messenger based on existing technologies, including encrypted email which you happen mention: Delta Chat
Matrix is trying to fill that gap