Is it important that images and videos are present in your new chat applications ? On Android Whatsapp images are part of "All Images" (don't really know how t

Is it important that images and videos are present in your new chat applications ? On Android Whatsapp images are part of "All Images" (don't really know how to call it) and these are synced with your Google Photos account, but you are free to sync them with any other means (they're just files after all). I guess it's time to self-host this content so as to not have to do this dance again when the next platform fails you, again