Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord

CronyAkatsuki@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 66 points –

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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I remember setting up a TeamSpeak server back in 2012 before Discord took over. Worked for us at the time.

Mumble is the go-to solution for that these days. Even has a nice Android client.

My friend group uses discord just for screen sharing. All voice comes are still in TS. It's funny to boot up discord and see 9 people in the same channel all muted with streams going.