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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 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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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

I do. I've been hosting it for 3 years now. I have seen them add new features rapidly, and it's pretty exciting, things can (rarely) break sometimes (cause you didn't read the upgrade notes before upgrading).

They had something called communities, which they scrapped for Spaces. Spaces are more akin to a server on Discord for the most part. I don't use Discord too much, so there could be some features missing that I have not noticed.

I didn't intend to bring them to me, I intended to go to them using bridges. If you have a Discord server, investigate how to bridge to that discord server (either personally via double puppeting bridges or maintain a complete copy of the server using relay bridges). This way over time you can bring people over to your matrix instance cause these companies do mess up (at this point its not will its when). Similar with signal, googlechat etc.

It is fun and fairly easy.