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Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by Vaggumon@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Pretty much what it says on the tin, but for more context. My friends and I use Discord to play D&D and other TTRPGs. We also use it to send memes and just have conversations. We mostly do the chat, text, images, gifs, etc. But we also use the voice and video chat pretty regularly too. Screen share sometimes as well. So I'd like to try to find something that has all those features if possible.

The new ID or facial recognition requirement they are implementing is a deal breaker for a few of us, and so if I can set up some kind of alternative to make it a non-issue, I'd like to.

I'm running Ubunutu 22.04 LETS, AMD 3700X, 64GBRAM, 10x 6TB HDD, and and 2 4TB NVmE. Have a 2gb up/down internet connection. So I don't think we should have any issues making it work smoothly for 7 people.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Back in my day, (shakes cane), Teamspeak and Ventrillo were the big voice chat platforms/tools. Both have text chat and channels/rooms; but their focus is voice chat for gaming.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ventrillo.

Dammit, son, makin' me feel old now

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Roger Wilco

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 months ago

Hahahahaha

I'll be over here crying in the corner.

Next you're gonna mention ICQ

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow you invoked a name I hadn't thought of in a very long time. Shit did I use that playing Unreal Tournament, StarCraft or was it late enough to be WoW?

Edit: final release 2003, guess it was unreal.

[–] ati@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago

What's that you say? IRC?

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ventrilo was awful, having huge delay. Also no persistent chat.

TeamSpeak is proprietary and required a license for more than 8 users iirc. Chat might have been persistent?

Mumble was/is king in terms of voice chat. Open source, fully featured, strong certificate based security, best latency. It's used as backend in many big games, too. No persistent chat, though.

We used IRC for chat and Mumble for voice like 10 years ago when I played Eve Online. Works great!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Mumble was awesome. It probably still is, to be fair