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Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by briffy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Since Discord announced they're going to help Petie T collect selfies of us all I've been working on a self hosted alternative mostly for my mates. I had five goals in mind when I started this:

Text Channels
Voice channels
Screen Sharing
End to end encrypted DMs
Able to run on pretty much any web hosting

I've reached that point now and figured why not slap the GPL on it and send it out into the wild.

I'm sure there'll be lots of bugs and I don't think it will scale well. I never set out to make something that would grow into a behemoth that's used for customer support and all sorts of shit.

The goal was to make something that covers that trifecta of text/voice/screensharing, without relying on P2P connectivity, and able to do it well for small groups of people.

There are more features I have in mind if it gets any interest:

Rate limiting on backend requests
Quasar app with the ability to add more than one server (the frontend is already built in Quasar and I started writing some code for it but I'm mostly building this for myself + friends where I host my own instance so I've not given it much attention)

So yeah, I'm not a professional dev, this is a hobby for me. Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Federation is just the current gimmick fad of the foss world.

Everyone has a massive boner for it in everything even when it makes no fucking sense or only harms a project.

Is it cool? Yeah. Is it actually important? Not at fucking all. It's at best a secondary feature that's nice to have if it doesn't harm the project.

Getting an actual product that's safe, secure and most importantly functional. Is infinity more important then federation.

End to end encryption is kinda the same problem. Not EVERYTHING needs that level of security. You don't and shouldn't be talking about things that require that level of secure in apps that aren't designed first and foremost for that level of safety.

And you can't expect everything to be secure and user friendly. They go against each other frequently.

Again a nice thing to have, but functional usability comes first.