Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)

warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s definitely going to be one of these two. Matrix and XMPP are just too much for casual users, and there’s no one client for either of them which supports all of Discord’s core features.

  Out of those two, Fluxer feels like the better choice right now, but I do wish they’d take a stronger stance against LLMs. Stoat feels clunkier, buggier, and feels like it’s getting left behind.

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  • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like comet has all of discords features, no? 

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  • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Element supports all of discords core features.

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    • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Last I checked it doesn’t keep channels in a server organized and always sorts by recent activity. I may be mistaken but I don’t believe it supported screenshare audio yet either

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      • littleomid@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        These are core features? For me core feature is channels, audio/video call and screen share and element can do all of that.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you run into the same problems I did with self-hosting? And if not, how did you avoid them?

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you talking about self hosting for fluxer? They explicitly state in their documentation they don’t want people using the current version because they’re doing a rewrite, so you should wait.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, Fluxer’s self hosting documentation 404s, and Stoat seems to still rely on a central server, which isn’t self hosted enough for my needs. It’s cool that both of them are looking good in the near future, but I want something I can start using in the next few months.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Honestly if you’re that worried about it, I’d just wait and not use anything. Instead of wasting time trying to find a product that probably won’t get better, you can wait and get Fluxer when they make it ready.

        Or you could pull stoat and modify the code yourself.

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      • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When did you last check the self-hosting documentation? I just poked my head into it and there’s a big post talking about why they’d rather people wait on self-hosting.

        That said if you liked Fluxer but are not satisfied with it right now (which is completely understandable. It’s in beta, after all, not a finished product), I’d say check back in 2-3 months. I would bet that the self-hosting is ready to go by then, judging by the rate of how other things have been updating.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn it this is the first I’m hearing about Fluxer’s AI development.

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• ttyybb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had the most people switch over to element (a full 2 people plus myself)

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