Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group?

boblemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, and this can be paired with a self-hosted mail server, too.

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• gray22@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is interesting. I’ve never heard of this project but it looks really neat.

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  • boblemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ve been using it on our phones and desktops for three years now, it’s very stable

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    • gray22@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you self host your email or use it with an email provider? Also, does it need its own inbox/address to function? I can’t really tell from the documentation if it functions along side normal emails or if it’ll mess up your inbox if you use it with your normal inbox/address.

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      • boblemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We use a self-hosted roundcube mail server, which is not necessary, and we did initially assign each person an additional account dedicated to delta.chat to prevent inbox clutter, but that didn’t happen. Nowadays, we prefer to send and receive emails in delta.chat.

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks interesting, but isn’t this slow though?

  Our chatroom is very active and the members won’t move if it’s much slower compared to Discord unfortunately…

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  • boblemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s basically real-time, even sending large files is very fast, I don’t know the details of the reason, maybe it’s because there is not much difference between the IMAP protocol and TLS, or because the roundcube ser we deploy is super fast?

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