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.

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[–] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

  • matrix - could not decryptinator
    • a hassle regarding voice
  • peersuite

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

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