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IRC, RocketChat, Slack. Technically Matrix, but for your usecase I wouldn't recommend it, as it's a bit heavy, and if you're just planning on using it with other people on the same server there's not a point.
EDIT: Just noticed the voice chat thing. I've used Jitsi for that, and it works well. Also self-hostable
Jitsi is great as a Skype/Zoom replacement. It's not a 'room' on a server, but voice and video chats are stable and fast.
Yeah, depending on what it's used for it can do well. If it's for scheduled calls, like with a weekly tabletop game, it can definitely work well. If it's for the more casual pop in/out that happens on a lot of Discords it's worse. I just don't know of a replacement for that aside Matrix
Not a bad recommendation, but I disagree.
Rocket chat is just as heavy (in fact, it federates to Matrix), uses MongoDB, and has steadily pulled features behind a paywall for years. To me, if I'm hosting the service on my own machines and I'm not using their live support, the idea of paying for the privilege of using it is absurd.
Matrix has come a long way, including integrated voice and video chats.
Fair, yeah. I didn't realize Rocket had gotten heavy. I hadn't used it in years, just remembered it being okay when I had. I've switched to XMPP for the same things I was using RC for, admittedly, it's just... More like a traditional texting app than emulating Discord's IRC-like experience
Matrix is pretty lightweight if you use something like Conduit or its spinoffs for a homeserver instead of Synapse, which is very heavy.
Good to know! Might try that at some point, just to see. I don't care for most of the matrix UIs, but maybe self hosting one of them will make me xD