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Socketchat has no uninstall command. Remove its files by hand, using the lists below.
Deleting your profile deletes your identity, your room keys and your message history on this computer. It cannot be undone. Leave your rooms first with /leave if you want the other members to see you go.

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The program

If you built from source, the program is ~/.cargo/bin/socketchat instead; cargo uninstall socketchat removes it. A server set up as a service also has a copy at /usr/local/bin/socketchat.
The installer also added ~/.local/bin to your PATH. Other tools often install there too, so leave that in place unless you know nothing else uses it. On macOS and Linux, the installer wrote ~/.local/bin/env and ~/.local/bin/env.fish and a line that loads them in your shell’s startup files, such as ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc. On Windows, it added the folder to your user PATH.

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Your profile

Your profile holds your keys, rooms and messages: Delete that folder to remove them. If you set SOCKETCHAT_HOME, the profile is in that folder instead.

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Server data

If you ran a server, its data folder holds its database, certificate and files: A server set up as in Cloud server keeps its data in /var/lib/socketchat instead. Remove that setup with:
Then delete /var/lib/socketchat once you are sure you no longer need a backup. Once the server’s data is gone, every room on it is gone for every member.

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Files you saved

Files you saved with /save stay where you saved them, usually your Downloads folder.