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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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We need something like what Lemmy is to Reddir, except for discord. A decentralized application with multiple instances that users can join.
I have a discord server of about ~1K members, and would love to spin up a docker container to host my own instance that users can join. Chat, voice/ video calls, video streaming, etc. I'd love to support a FOSS project like this. Maybe even have E2E while we're at it!
Closest I can think of is Matrix. Element isn't bad.
Matrix is the way, and element is the best so far, but it needs more work.
Good old Teamspeak. Everyone can host his own server.
Stoat (formerly called Revolt) is potentially that. I tried it a while back and it was still rough around the edges, but the potential was there. Open source and has potential for self hosting.
Stoat.chat