You can try Organic Maps if you have a pressing need for privacy in your maps app.
It seems… okay… when I used it. No support for android or apple auto integration though.
Matrix is the usual suggestion. I’ve never used voice chat on it or the clients for it like Element though so I can’t speak to how well it works if you need that function in Discord.
If the Fedora group starts doing dumb stuff I’ll consider switching. But so far they’ve been rock solid. While Red Hat is certainly a major contributor to Fedora (the biggest easily) they don’t control it per-say.
Fedora Workstation is what I use for my desktop. If I were to have to reinstall now I’d do Silverblue.
For my home lab I do Proxmox with a couple of VM’s for Ubuntu server for pihole DNS servers and an OpenMediaVault VM for my docker workloads. I’d probably do CoreOS or IoT if I was starting over there though.