Sharkord - Open Source Self-Hosted Chat Platform
sharkord.com
Privacy-first, self-hosted real-time chat platform. Own your data, control your conversations.

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.

  • eclipse7@feddit.nuEnglish
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    4 months ago

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

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • Drew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 months ago

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

        • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’m in a Discord server with 2000 members. You really want to encrypt and decrypt all incoming and outgoing messages 2000 times? There’s a reason why most E2EE messaging apps don’t really do that for group chats.

  • HumanDent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • taco_shale032@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Keep in mind that this project is likely vibe coded, or at least seems very AI assisted. (Copilot is mentioned in the .gitignore file and this was built by a single person in about 4 months) A bunch of security issues have already been opened.

    Edit: @[email protected] already mentioned this, my bad. 😄

    • marud@piefed.marud.frEnglish
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      4 months ago

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

    • Shadow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Based on what? A quick peek and I didn’t see any of the stuff I expect from LLMs

      • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Less than a 4 month commit history and one dev. Not impossible maybe, but sure is suspect.

        • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’ve built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM or ML coding tools.

          With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.

          With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it’s possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.

          So the time spent doesn’t necessarily say that it’s vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.