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You can federate Matrix using Synapse.
I think if Matrix were easier to deploy, it would have a lot more adoption for this kind of thing. Once Matrix is set up and running, it runs great! Put energy toward improving Matrix deployment (and don't give me yet another ansible playbook or docker file... it should be as easy to set up on bare metal as forgejo or you're doin' it wrong) instead of building something new from scratch.
How much easier can it even get to deploy? You start it, point your domain at it and you're good to go.
It's called matrix.
literally funded by mossad
It was originally funded by amdocs, a US and Israeli company, but they have their own funding for many years now.
Regardless, considering its entirely open source, buildable from source, self-hostable (and auditable), which is more than you can say for signal, where the back end is centralized, and hosted in a five-eyes country.
Matrix requires no "just trust us" clause unlike signal, because you can run the software yourself, and verify that its not making calls to US or Israeli servers.
This idea makes no sense. The reason people use discord instead of forums (other than the slick interface) is that you can find other discord servers (i.e. "forums") without changing accounts.
XMPP?
I have been looking for a self hosted alternative to Discord if anybody knows some good options. I don't need it to federate with anything not sure what you're going for there.. Closest option so far looked to be TS6, but they don't seem keen on allowing self hosting for that. Apparently there's a license that's only good for two months. Would love to get my friends off discord and onto something local that has chat channels and screen sharing still.
There's Revolt.chat, which is pretty much aiming to be just a self-hostable Discord clone
Edit: Apparently it's called Stoat now. That's definitely a downgrade in the naming department
Just to make this abundantly clear, we received a cease & desist against our use of the name ‘Revolt’, we are not releasing any further details as this may cause harassment of the other party and may hurt negotiations.
Damn, that sucks. I wonder who the whiny IP baby is.
Goddamnit. IP bullshit like this is why I have Rebellion (the game studio) on my blacklist