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Two alternatives:
Both have self-host options.
I can't tell for sure, but it doesn't look like Revolt has voice chat yet? Which was what attracted my friend group to Discord initially.
Yeah, sadly most open source alternatives to discord either cannot do voice/video chat or cannot do it as well or seamlessly as discord did, partially because federated voice/video chat is not really a solved issue and partially because of money. Though even most of the centralised ones don't really have voice/video chat that works well except for a few like Signal because they have the resources.
Another problem is it's based on p2p a lot of the time, whereas I think things like discord partially use their servers to facilitate it, I'll check on this though.
Discord routes over their own servers and uses a private I3Dnet backbone to spread the signals across the world. The latter is one of the reasons why discord video is very good.
If discord did any p2p there would be stories all over of people getting ddos-ed after joining a voice call / screenshare.
In general, discords tech is pretty solid overall. The platform itself is just getting shittier.
Thanks for the info!
Yeah, sadly.