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Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by Vaggumon@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd like to try to find something that has all those features if possible.

The new ID or facial recognition requirement they are implementing is a deal breaker for a few of us, and so if I can set up some kind of alternative to make it a non-issue, I'd like to.

I'm running Ubunutu 22.04 LETS, AMD 3700X, 64GBRAM, 10x 6TB HDD, and and 2 4TB NVmE. Have a 2gb up/down internet connection. So I don't think we should have any issues making it work smoothly for 7 people.

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[–] False@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Haven't found one that's as good yet personally...

[–] ppb1701@ppb.social 2 points 7 months ago

@Vaggumon I think the nearest thing might be matrix....someone else might know other stuff

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
CSAM	Child Sexual Abuse Material
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
PIA	Private Internet Access brand of VPN
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPN	Virtual Private Network
XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging
nginx	Popular HTTP server

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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[–] quaff@thecanadian.social 1 points 7 months ago

@Vaggumon check out https://stoat.chat/

[–] Kubiac@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good old Teamspeak 3 or 6

[–] ppb1701@ppb.social 1 points 7 months ago

@Kubiac @Vaggumon Man I remember using that like 15 years ago or so at a job. I honestly didn't realize it was still going. cool!

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Short answer: No Long answer: No, but maybe in a year or two?

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes, Mattermost. It's very similar to Slack and Discord. I have hosted it for years for our organization.

There's a web interface, and has an app available. Can have all sorts of integrations and bridges to other services.

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