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Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello, I would like to hear your opinions about a good selfhosted messenger like discord.

To list exactly what I mean by that is:

No need for federation ( only will be used by friends )
E2EE
Support for direct messages
Support for discord like server management by which I mean the ability to set rooms and topics for such rooms.

From what I know, this seems to be more similar to slack alternative's but wanted to hear opinions of others.

I have been thinking about either matrix, mattermost, rocket.chat or revolt chat.

I already have a XMPP server, but setting up encryption and client's has turned away quite a few people I would like to get onto this platform.

EDIT: As pointed by other people E2EE isn't needed for my usecase if no federation.

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[–] jul@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried to set this up recently but failed. I wish there was a up to date noob friendly guide for this. IIRC some containers, mongodb was one of them, didn't go healthy.

[–] RayJW@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I never actually tried myself, but it seems like the documentation certainly could be improved. I saw that they provide a Docker compose, so perhaps that could be of help if you didn't use that the last time around. They are currently in the process of cleaning up the projects to make things more maintainable and easier to get an overview, so let's hope things might improve a bit. I think for me personally, this certainly seems like the most promising Discord replacement because it feels like a set and get solution for non-techy people trying to switch instead of relearning everything like with Matrix.