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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by gccalvin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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As r/selfhosted seems to have shutdown due to the reddit api changes (rip), I wanted to see if anyone has worked with these services before?

How do they compare to Discord and how hard is it to maintain, as the setup looks pretty in depth for matrix and synapse. How did you convince your user base to use it over Discord.

I've hosted TS3 for about 8 years and are looking for alternatives, as we have to use Discord for screen sharing.

Thanks!

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[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think ejabberd or another other xmpp server would have been my first choice for a service like this by a long shot. If only we had some good iOS clients to go to. While I'm on android, most of the family and some of the friends use iOS, so it was kind of a non-starter from that alone.

Edit: log -> long

[–] nick_99@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah unfortunately iOS is very stingy with battery. Thankfully there's a few apps that use apples push and ejabberd supports it. I haven't tested them in a while tho since I'm on android.

Mattermost is great and I'm pretty sure they have an iOS app. I don't believe the messages are encrypted on MM, but if you're running the infra it's not too big of a deal IMHO.