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Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 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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[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

you mean unlike the tools discord has replaced, such as "mumble", "ventrilo", "roger wilco" and "trillian"?

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mumble is a verb like chat but what the fuck has a stoat got anything to do chatting?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

now do the other ones

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Discord never replaced mumble. The two are in different circles.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 months ago

for some, yeah. depends on your use case.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unironically yes

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

soundn like a problem with your friends then. who doesn't love a stoat?

[–] hesh@quokk.au 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know, it's picky lol. I'm still considering it as the replacement for my discord groups (also checking out Element/Matrix). The average users aren't going to be up for swapping around a lot of platforms, so I am hoping to make one big push on the platform of choice. "Revolt" would have gotten less "wtf is that, how do you even spell it?" than "Stoat"

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 months ago

for what it's worth matrix has worked well for us. it's apparently a bitch to set up though.