Normally my policy is “E2EE or GTFO”, but the concept only applies to a subset of Discord use cases. A good Discord alternative needs to handle the same variety of use cases as Discord.

E2EE for a public forum makes no sense.

Totally valid point, especially w.r.t. ease of onboarding for public usecases. Sure would be nice if it functioned (optionally) as a private forum as well. Seems like a lot of commonality there and covers the DM case and the ‘semi-public’ but discord is totally logging everything case. One can hope, but I agree, first things first.

Perhaps I’m missing something, or perhaps everyone who thinks Matrix is a good substitute for Discord just don’t use Discord very much.

Seems likely, certainly Matrix has some pretty evangelical supporters. I think you nailed it with discord being more useful for mid sized numbers and having a client that handles it pretty well. I’d also add pretty painless onboarding. An OSS offering that matched it’s primary features (and has E2EE) or has a good framework, roadmap and people to get there would come in pretty clutch as discord goes public and starts monetizing everything in sight. A million (or thousands) independent FOSS ‘discords’ in the night would be a sweet sight.

Fair enough, thanks.

Different usecase, but I wouldn’t be particularly scared. OP is about a selfhosted discord replacement (lacks E2EE so far I think), I’d quite like that if didn’t look like more of a maintenance burden than the rest of my stack combined (even without moderation burden, but I’m thinking of keeping a small server). I also think it’d be a social boon to have millions (even thousands) of independent discords pop up.

Do you host your own matrix ? Did it go down when matrix.org did ?

Fair cop, sounds useful, and I have used it in the past for similar. I was however looking at it in the context of Selfhosted.

its being used basically everywhere at this point. Government, healthcare, military, university, private industry, schools, etc.

True, and I have good hopes for it, partly because of the adoption, you will however note the scale of your examples, basically it’s an IT department project rather than a set and forget selfhosted container (I recognize there’ll always be moderation to do). We shall see, I’m in no hurry.

Yah, did so long ago. Comment still stands. We are in Selfhosted…

Can you? Can I? Best I understand it’s a world of pain. If there was a clear winner in the discord-a-like OSS race all these alternatives wouldn’t be coming out of the woodwork. Maybe it’s matrix (with an actually good client, proper decentralization, easy containers), maybe stoat, maybe … I’ve always hated discord anyway and have little need currently, I can wait.

voice/video chat

Yeah, no voice chat is a bummer. I haven’t tried, but my first instinct was, that’s a VM right there.

If you can make a bubble out of crypto and sub-prime mortgages, quantum computing is a doddle, though I’d bet it comes after compute as a service using all those datacentres (some of which will even get built).

Problem is the AI burst is very likely to take out the US economy (and do bad things to the rest of the world), the home of these scams. But I’m sure some shareholder value was ‘created’.

Here’s hoping this gets more software off the discord support teat. No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence. Discord support is such a red flag I immediately move on even if it’s OSS. If you can’t do real doco and you can’t stand up a forum (Discourse is nice I hear) then what chance do you have of being competent.

Also, IPO incoming, expect it to get worse.

Over my cold, dead hands. Fuck you and your shitty worldview,

Better be. Also, fuck chrome.

Yeah, if you dig through journalctl (and you should once in a while) it gives you the commands to fix that stuff if you think it’s right. That said, would be nice to not have to do that.

Yah, their fallacy is false dichotomy.

Please do.

lmao :) Have fun.

Heh, that’s on you, bazzite here (was arch for a few years 4+ish years ago) can’t remember the last time an update was problematic (oh, wait, 42->43 broke a distrobox, but I do that myself all the time, it’s what they’re for).

Tobacco industry take two.

Yay! Capitalism!

stopping terrorism

More like I’ll spy on your people, you spy on mine (which is illegal / unpopular for me), swapsies.