Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Limerance@piefed.social ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Not bad is a good description. It’s not fun to use compared to other chat software.

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• icosahedron@ttrpg.network ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yes i second matrix. it’s different from discord in a lot of ways, but it’s still a pretty seamless transition. for anyone who wants to host matrix, i recommend the continuwuity homeserver software. it’s much easier to host than synapse and is significantly faster for 99% of use cases

  if you’re just trying use matrix, i prefer cinny over element for the client. cinny’s ui is also very similar to discord’s and it handles space/room grouping very intuitively. there’s also fluffychat (less feature rich) and schildichat (element fork), among others. however, element is currently the only client which fully supports voice chat

  for instances, i recommend choosing something other than matrix.org. right now, matrix is barely decentralized because the vast majority of users choose matrix.org, which isn’t great. also matrix.org collects a lot of data and requires more information to register than most servers. some other good public instances are:

  • tchncs.de
  • unredacted.org
  • catgirl.cloud
  • calitabby.net

  there are also many, many smaller public instances, but it’s probably better to choose a relatively big one for moderation reasons. a lot of people think matrix is dead or no one uses it, but there are plenty of active communities if you know where to look

  for your friends who refuse to quit discord for some reason, matrix’s ecosystem also has lots of bridges. if you’re willing to self host, i recommend out of your element. the only caveat is that it doesn’t support e2ee rooms

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  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is fantastic information, thank you

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  • Hazematman@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If OP wants voice and video chat like they say they’d have to host synapse and use element afaik.i don’t think any of the other home servers support matrix calling. Cinny and fluffychat don’t support voice or video calls. Fluffychat has it as an “option” but it’s currently broken last time I tried it. Schildi chat might work for voice and video since it’s an element fork. I’ve not tried it so I don’t know for sure.

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    • icosahedron@ttrpg.network ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      element call is a standalone service (call.element.io) that the client just integrates really well. since it’s not actually part of the homeserver deployment, it should work fine even without synapse. that said, it means traffic passes through a third party server unless element call and the client are also self hosted. but yes, you’re right that other clients currently do not support calling. luckily, cinny is relatively close to merging a PR that adds it

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can confirm, I host Matrix (homeserver synapse) and Element. Voice is a pain to get set up but I hear there are other matrix services which will do this for you easier. It’s a process though. You can get text chat up in a day, voice is going to be a bit after that, a lot of tinkering.

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  • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dito (Synapse server), Element for desktop app and fruitphones, Shildichat for android (its lighter and has an adorable turtle as a mascot).

    And seconding the voice coms, the VOIP relay server is a huge pain to set up, same with the registration page. My nerd herd hosts a few services that federated to share services and the admin group just issues people accounts.

    TLDR: no… Were not using discord anymore, we have discord at home.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      nerd herd

      I understood that reference!

      I’ve heard positive things about Dito, if I was doing it over again I think I’d start there

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