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Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. (sharkord.com)
submitted 1 day ago by recklessengagement@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Came across this on the r/selfhosted community. Still very much in the alpha stages, but it's already got a Docker image you can try out for yourself, or try out the demo server.

Tried it earlier today, couldn't get the voice/video chat to work right away on my self-hosted setup but the real-time chat was very snappy. Looks promising.

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[–] HumanDent@lemmy.zip 14 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

While I appreciate the effort devs put into making open source alternatives to a closed source app, the naming convention is really starting to get irritating...

Discord splits out to

  • Armcord
  • Legcord
  • Now Sharkord

YouTube has

  • InnerTune
  • Which turned into OuterTune

Libre-this, Libre-that, Libre-cock and balls.

...I would love for devs to separate their software's name just a little bit more from the thing they're trying to replace. Please. Just be more unique. The name can still have a nod to what it's replacing and not just be a partial modification to the original name.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Libre-cock and balls

libre adjective

With very few limitations
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Aside from

  • iso27002 violations
  • FHS violation

It looks good!

[–] HowdyLemmy@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

Can you/someone eli5 that for me :)

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I honestly didn’t know what these were.

These are very simplistic but iso27002 violations are security procedures not being documented properly. The FHS one refers to not following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard on Unix‑like systems.

Why does the second one bother me more?

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We're here to break the law anyway, so, meh

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

Thank you for sharing, this looks like it has potential and its brand new. Love you FOSS nerds.

[–] eclipse7@feddit.nu 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

No E2E-encryption? Can't find any info about it. Unencrypted = big nope. Looks good otherwise :)

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 23 hours ago

Also completely new with no other contributors. Stay the fuck away from this until its been in development for a while and someone reviewed the code.

[–] aksdb@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Discord isn’t E2EE either. Having data under your control even if not encrypted is a big win.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

why use this over the hundreds of messaging platforms that can be self hosted and have e2ee

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 20 points 23 hours ago (18 children)

voice/video chat

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[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Haven't had a chance to really look into it, but there's also spacebar chat which is an open source selfhosted reimplementation of the discord backend that can be used with existing discord clients and bots and stuff. Which depending on how solid the rest of if is, could really help existing discord people move with less effort.

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Saw that earlier too, planning to check it out!

[–] fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Why use this over Matrix?

[–] priapus@piefed.social 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.

We're all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don't want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.

An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.

[–] priapus@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I'm in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don't join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I've joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don't think it'll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

The user experience for matrix is absolutely dog shit. Anyone who says otherwise is huffing copium.

I have been setting up matrix servers and testing every desktop and mobile client. I cannot present this to my discord group as an alternative.

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

As much as I want to love matrix, it is a huuuuge pain to set up & maintain.

[–] eclipse7@feddit.nu 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not really, been running Synapse for 5ish years and I barely spend any time on it. Once you configure it then it just works

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

With voice/video or just text?

[–] eclipse7@feddit.nu 1 points 14 hours ago

Both, but since last year I'm using Element's public voice/video server instead, works fine for me and less to maintain ;)

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Stoat.chat, anyone?

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Their registration process is currently hugged to death. Can't receive verification emails.

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yup, saw some stats from screenshots on there, their mail service had a cap of 300 mails monthly and it blew up to over 50 000. Verification/mail servers went up again yesterday at 4am CET but still seems like the authentication servers are pretty overrun.

[–] marud@piefed.marud.fr 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tried a few months ago, the documentation for self hosting was lacking lots of info and now I can't even find it...

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I lade my acc a year ago and iirc they didnt have voice chat then. Now they seem to have better permissions for channels, vc and video/screen sharing around the corner. Only thing Im lacking is fediverse type of instances so we can only pray that will be developed one day. As of now idk what the status on self-hosting is but ive seen the devs link alot about it in their official server

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Oh woah, didn't realize it was self-hostable. I'll try it out!

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