Submitted 20 hours ago by recklessengagement@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Came across this on the r/selfhosted community. Still very much in the alpha stages, but it’s already got a Docker image you can try out for yourself, or try out the demo server.
Tried it earlier today, couldn’t get the voice/video chat to work right away on my self-hosted setup but the real-time chat was very snappy. Looks promising.
While I appreciate the effort devs put into making open source alternatives to closed source app, the naming convention is really starting to get irritating…
Discord splits out to
YouTube has
Libre-this, Libre-that, Libre-cock and balls.
…I would love for devs to separate their software’s name just a little bit more from the thing they’re trying to replace. Please. Just be more unique. The name can still have a nod to what it’s replacing and not just be a partial modification to the original name.
Libre-cock and balls
<actual LOL>
libre adjective With very few limitations
Datcord
No E2E-encryption? Can’t find any info about it. Unencrypted = big nope
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Discord isn’t E2EE either. Having data under your control even if not encrypted os a big win.
why use this over the hundreds of messaging platforms that can be self hosted and have e2ee
Calls are end-to-end encrypted.
Also completely new with no other contributors. Stay the fuck away from this until its been in development for a while and someone reviewed the code.
I believe you are correct, but this is still very early into development. Hopefully this gets added at some point
Aside from
It looks good!
Can you/someone eli5 that for me :)
I honestly didn’t know what these were.
These are very simplistic but iso27002 violations are security procedures not being documented properly. The FHS one refers to not following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard on Unix‑like systems.
Why does the second one bother me more?
We’re here to break the law anyway, so, meh
This is so vibecoded 🤣 Nawthx
Based on what? A quick peek and I didn’t see any of the stuff I expect from LLMs
Less than a 4 month commit history and one dev. Not impossible maybe, but sure is suspect.
Lolwut??? Did you check the GitHub at all?
Haven’t had a chance to really look into it, but there’s also spacebar chat which is an open source selfhosted reimplementation of the discord backend that can be used with existing discord clients and bots and stuff. Which depending on how solid the rest of if is, could really help existing discord people move with less effort.
Saw that earlier too, planning to check it out!
Stoat.chat, anyone?
Their registration process is currently hugged to death. Can’t receive verification emails.
Tried a few months ago, the documentation for self hosting was lacking lots of info and now I can’t even find it…
Oh woah, didn’t realize it was self-hostable. I’ll try it out!
Thank you for sharing, this looks like it has potential and its brand new. Love you FOSS nerds.
Why use this over Matrix?
The user experience for matrix is absolutely dog shit. Anyone who says otherwise is huffing copium.
I have been setting up matrix servers and testing every desktop and mobile client. I cannot present this to my discord group as an alternative.
As much as I want to love matrix, it is a huuuuge pain to set up & maintain.
Not really, been running Synapse for 5ish years and I barely spend any time on it. Once you configure it then it just works
Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.
Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.
We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.
An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.
taco_shale032@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Keep in mind that this project is likely vibe coded, or at least seems very AI assisted. (Copilot is mentioned in the
.gitignorefile and this was built by a single person in about 4 months) A bunch of security issues have already been opened.just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And I got downvotes into oblivion for bringing it up 🤣
taco_shale032@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I suppose tone matters when trying to get your point across. 😄
iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
Thanks for the warning.