Basically, I need a Discord alternative with the security of Element/Riot but the ease-of-use of, well, Discord.

Anyone have anything to use?

  • Muad'DibberM
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    103 years ago

    Element pretty much the only secure one. They recently added spaces, which is getting really close to discord communities.

    • @DBGamer
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      53 years ago

      Yea but it’s still significantly lacks the following, which I hope can be addressed sooner or later. Since I am hate going to Discord for everything.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      Wait, they did? Noice.

      Alright, guess it can’t be helped, but I’ll probably use Element either way.

      Just trying to keep my options open for the community I’m making.

  • @strootje
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    73 years ago

    Mattermost is literaly a selfhosted discord alternative. Take a look at that :)

      • @tracyspcy
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        43 years ago

        if you cannot visit rocket.chat website by yourself, it is free open source self-hosted alternative to slack/discord, ie communication platform.

          • @tracyspcy
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            23 years ago

            rocket.chat is also provide e2e encryption, also open source, so it is hard to say objectively. The thing I like in rocket.chat is that it could be very easily setup and hosted on raspberry pi in minutes.

              • @tracyspcy
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                Idk what you mean, I’m not a part of rocket.chat team. You can just visit their website and ask all your question directly via their support (bottom right button ;) ), or join their support server on rocket.chat

  • @zookidz
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    tox.chat looks interesting but it needs more development

      • Sandro Linux
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        23 years ago

        It is a lightweight protocol (like matrix but more lightweight) which is run on many different servers and XMPP is open source. XMPP is like email for instant messaging.

        Servers

        With XMPP you want a server that you communicate on. One I have used is shad0w which is free: https://www.shad0w.io/ A list of XMPP hosts: https://list.jabber.at/

        XMPP Clients

        You then need a client for XMPP. Think of this like Element, it runs on the underlying protocol (for element that is Matrix). So for your client you want something that you like that is compatible with your OS. A list of XMPP clients: https://xmpp.org/software/clients.html

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    33 years ago

    I’ve been hosting Zulip for my group on a $10 a month Digital Ocean droplet (setting up was relatively straight forward) , and it’s been working great for us. One thing we found was that stuff like Discord is really bad for people who aren’t constantly on because it’s really hard to follow threads and conversations with them being all mixed together. Zulip has threaded conversations by default, so it’s much easier to come back and catch up on what’s happening.

    The UI is a bit different though and takes a bit of getting used to, but overall I definitely find it worth it.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSAOP
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      13 years ago

      Primary question from me is: does Zulip have good security like Element?

      What you said sounds really tempting but I want to make sure that what I’m doing is secure.