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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I personally prefer a self - hosted Revolt instance. It's not federated or anything, but it's fast and nearly identical to Discord with some extra nice features, and it has a first party docker container so it's extremely easy to set up. I didn't go with Matrix or anything like that because it's harder to set up a natural system where you have a server, but then that server has many channels, and that's very important to how my friend group communicates and hangs out.

Are there any plans for Revolt to federate? I gave it a quick search and had no luck

Official statement:

Short Answer

We don't think federation is beneficial to Revolt and would actively hinder our stance on privacy. In short, federation is prone to leaking your metadata, could make removing your data harder, and we otherwise have no incentive to develop support if it we aren't able to use it for the main platform (revolt.chat).

In terms of technical reasons:

  • We don't have the manpower or resources to implement federation into our protocol.
  • It would be difficult to adopt our protocol to work with federation.

Source with full answer: https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation