Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server?

gccalvin@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 122 points –

As r/selfhosted seems to have shutdown due to the reddit api changes (rip), I wanted to see if anyone has worked with these services before?

How do they compare to Discord and how hard is it to maintain, as the setup looks pretty in depth for matrix and synapse. How did you convince your user base to use it over Discord.

I've hosted TS3 for about 8 years and are looking for alternatives, as we have to use Discord for screen sharing.

Thanks!

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Just found out about this recently. It's touted as an open source alternative.
Revolt Chat

I set up an instance a while ago and it's pretty neat. I'm not at the stage of asking my users to switch yet, for our small instance discord is still fine for me, and in that time hopefully revolt can get more feature parity

I just started using revolt. Seems pretty nice so far, but we'll have to see how it does in the long run. It has full color customization, so that's nice.