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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by gccalvin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been hosting it for myself for a couple of years and once you set it up it's without problems. I wanted to consolidate all my chats like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. into one UI and the bridges allow me to do that.

Discord has a proprietary license so I never considered it.

[–] knF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds really interesting! Could you please indicate what are you selfhosting exactly in order to achieve this?

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • For the server I use synapse and I use their deb package so it upgrades itself with the whole system when I do a apt upgrade
  • For the bridges there are different solutions, most of them can be found here https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/setup.html (<- the onel written in go) and https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/python/setup.html (the ones written in python)
  • Some bridges you don't need to host yourself because there are some public ones available via the Element UI

But remember that bridges terminate end to end encryption and there are some pitfalls with that. For some background info you can watch a video I made some time ago: https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG

[–] knF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks a lot for the reply @jeena@jemmy.jeena.net, much appreciated. I'm watching the video right now, thanks for sharing your personal experience on hosting the services and the security considerations, good to know! I was between happy and surprised to see that the video is on PeerTube, way to go, thanks for promoting the Fediverse. 👍

Not 100% sure if I want to go through this hole now 🤣

[–] roosmaa@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

This is really interesting to hear, never thought of these services allowing enough access to effectively use something self-hosted for consolidation. Will definitely look into it!

[–] knF@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Sounds really interesting! Could you please indicate what are you selfhosting exactly in order to achieve this?