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.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.

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  • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The main issue is you’ll never get the cretins that use it off it. Communities… they’re just sitting there burning the library of alexandria… all the esoteric knowledge they’re “putting on discord” is just gonna vanish.

    over a billion in vc funding and discord is as shit as it is.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

      • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Mmhmm, its also not early round funding so… where are they gonna get 3bn to pay back their investors? Or even break even at 1bn?

    • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
      02·
      4 months ago

      Call them cretins all you want, Discord in a great piece of software and very powerful. The usability is better than most others.

      • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Its a usability and information discoverability is a nightmare and its continuously probing my system in ways that I don’t want it to.

        The usability is complete and total ass unless you’ve grown up knowing no better.

        Edit: Also, its full of toxic ass communities with stupid little kingdoms they’ve set up.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Something that wasn’t posted here yet but I just got told about: https://fluxer.app/

    A chat platform that answers to you, not investors. It’s ad-free, open source, community-funded, and never sells your data or nags you with upgrade pop-ups.

    Over time, we’d love to explore optional monetisation tools that help creators and communities earn, with a small, transparent fee that keeps the app sustainable.

  • sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.ioEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I’m hosting a matrix server it was rough but not impossible. Using conduit as the backend. Now that the setup is finally done it was so worth it. I would do it again if needed. Coturn was easy to set up along side it.

  • quantumcheap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Self hosting a Matrix server was daunting when I first looked into it, so concerns over it being difficult to deploy are pretty founded. But that changed when I discovered this repo. This makes quick work of getting one spun up, but the true gem of this is their documentation. They’ve probably got the best documentation I’ve ever read that explains the “why’s” and not just the “how’s”.

    https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

  • TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I‘ve been looking into this a bit and whilst i haven’t really tried any of the alternatives, i did collect some notes:

    possible contenders

    • zulip
      • apache-2.0 self hosted more work focussed
    • stoatchat (formerly revolt)
      • AGPL-3 self hosted
    • teamspeak
      • proprietary … self hosted older ts3 with ts6 announced
    • mumble
      • license seems foss - self hosted
    • spacebar
      • AGPL-3 self hosted
    • return to irc or xmpp

    probably no

    DO NOT

    • mattermost
      • play stupid games, win stupid prices
    • guilded
      • owned by roblox
    • slack
    • discord
    • ventrilo
      • proprietary - not selfhosted - no linux

    please let me know what y’all think

    • dude@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Most of the possible contenders lack video calls and some also other needs mentioned by the OP. Nextcloud Talk has them all