Anyone looking for a lightweight self hosted alternative to discord might want to check out sharkord. Its less about large communities and more about a private space to chat with friends, that you have complete privacy and control with.
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I've finally gotten off my ass and set up matrix and jabber to pilot with my friend and family. I've threatened everyone with IRC, but I really wouldn't mind going back to hosting IRC servers...
Yeah, I know a couple of mods whose servers are in a bit of an uproar.
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I recommend Stoat, it can be selfhosted, open source, there is no shady company behind it, and it works well. There even is top-notch noise filtering, which I found very important for voice calls.
Stoats bigger problem is that it's been spinning it's wheels for years has basically gotten no where and has a fraction of the features people want out of a discord clone.
It's ok, but it need to actually start taking progressing it's feature set seriously before anyone will start taking it seriously.
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Isn’t this their third attempt?
My country was getting age verification before the others but yesterday it just stopped for me, no idea why