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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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[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The Mastodon founder, Eugen Rochko, has just announced that "We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon".

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116041405748460511

Zulip is probably more focused toward work than TTRPGs, but it can't hurt to try it. (I haven't tried it personally, yet.) It is self-hostable.

https://zulip.com/

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Zulip is great… on a PC. On mobile is a totally different thing, and not in a good way. 😕

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What was the problem with Zulip on mobile did you have?

I only use it for text chat, so I'm curious.

[–] D1re_W0lf@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Basically, the interface, or the almost lack of it. You use Discord on a PC or mobile and the experience is pretty much the same. On Zulip this does not happens. It’s a totally different experience with several things lacking, like the folder organization, for instance.

Discord on mobile

Zulip on mobile

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I've always found the Discord ui on desktop and mobile to be really bad, just very busy and unintuitive.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Five years ago, a open-source project I worked on moved to Zulip (from Slack) and it was a small hurdle. But after a month, I really like it!

So much that I've pushed a few other open source projects (who lived on Discord).

I was really surprised when I started a new job two years ago and THEY used a self-hosted Zulip. It's everything Im used to on Slack.

Discord has team speak/video sharing, which I don't think Zulip has. But then again, we use something else for video calls.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Zulip integrates with Jitsi, Zoom, and Bigbluebutton for voice and video chat. Looks like a sensible solution.

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

It's a shame, zulip doesn't have e2ee. not even DMs. but they seem to be working towards federation of some sort? there are no good/perfect solutions out there.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

For e2ee, neither does Discord, nor Stoat, which is what most of these comments are pushing people towards.