Now that people have moved from reddit to lemmy I’m glad to be using more FOSS software. Now all that’s left is discord but I can’t find a good replacement.
https://matrix.org/ might be interesting to you
Revolt and Matrix/Element
There is also Rocket.chat, to complete the list, though it is supposed to be difficult to host.
I would recommend Matrix. My small instance is running Conduit, and it works great!
https://www.opensourcealternative.to/ lists rocket.chat as an alternative to Slack and Discord
I have not used it. I have used Mattermost. And it can do channels, teams, hashtags, @ mentions etc similar to Slack. Though it requires the server be hosted and administered by you or someone you know.
If you remember using teamspeak or ventrillo… Their is a FOSS alternative called mumble that works similarly. Its essentially the closest to what you’re asking that has both VOIP and other features. Some communities especially mmorpg clans and gaming clans still use it. Idk how popular it is in general though. Discord is supported by huge donations which is why they’ve been able to dominate, but teamspeak/mumble still exist and essentially are the same thing but less modern.
IRC and Matrix are both IM systems but are alternatives to discord if that’s all the functionality you seek. Matrix is also in the fediverse.
Someone said matrix moved to voip so I wanna try that. I made an account a while back but never used it
Self hosting gitea : https://about.gitea.com/ is going to give you the github UX. You can also go for the forked forgejo : https://forgejo.org/.
Gitea is getting into corporation/IP territory while forgejo is 100% community driven.
Self-hosting might feels intimidating for some but once you have your server the speed and “snappiness” feels insane.
- Matrix
- XMPP
- IRC
If you get Beeper.com which is based on Matrix.org you can have both: FOSS and chatting with your friends on Discord.
Isn’t it subscription based?
Thought so too, but they actually don’t charge anything. Wonder if I’m the product then.
https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free Turns out they are going to provide a “Plus” version with extra features for paying customers. So, its not bad I guess!
Confusion here between ‘Service’ and ‘Software’ methinks…
Here’s Discord running in a FOSS browser…
So I wouldn’t be worrying about software.
Alright buddy you got me I used the wrong term. I meant service
I used the ‘betterdiscord-installer’.
Ferdium still looking good.
However, Discord isn’t so much an application as a protocol - you’re just changing the client.
@Secret300 This really depends heavily on what parts of #Discord you’re trying to replace, as nothing currently has a 1:1 similarity with it. #Matrix will likely get you most of what you want but self-hosting it can be quite a sizable task. #Mumble is an excellent choice if your main concern is voice rooms, text chat is not so great. The ““best”” option would probably be to mix mumble with xmpp, as both do what they’re designed to do very well and are also quite easy to maintain.
Is self hosting Matrix really that hard? So far it looks like matrix is what I want. They don’t have good voice features right now but it looks like they are working on it
@Secret300 I wouldn’t say it was hard. The replication part of matrix can get very big, very fast. If you’re not prepared for that, it could easily get out of hand.
So basically have a lot of storage ready?
Matrix is good but it feels more like a WhatsApp group or something. Definitely room there to have a client that’s more fun, like Discord
Been checking out matrix clients and so far Cinny looks and feels closer to discord and fluffychat is pretty good to. Both work better then element in my experience
