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Since Discord has decided to set itself on fire you might be looking for an alternative. Fluxer is open source (AGPL), selfhostable and based in Sweden. But maybe wait a while before you try to install the server yourself because the dev writes on github:

I know it's hard to resist, but please wait a little longer before you dive deep into the current codebase or try to set up self-hosting. I'm aware the current stack isn't very lightweight. In the next update, self-hosting should be straightforward, with a small set of services: Fluxer Server (TypeScript) using SQLite for persistence, Gateway (Erlang), and optionally LiveKit for voice and video.

The developer hosted instance has a Nitro-like premium tier for their service named Plutonium, if you selfhost you get all the premium features for free.

Fluxer is not federated (yet), but according to the website, federation is planned in the near(-ish) future. Furthermore the service is a bit spotty at the moment as they are fighting with an unusually big influx of new users.

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[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

In the modern internet, these alternative services have to be federated in order to withstand mass migrations.

[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Which is why I think the federated (and very similarly named) Fluux will have much more success than this.

https://www.process-one.net/blog/introducing-fluux-messenger-a-modern-xmpp-client-born-from-a-holiday-coding-session/

I'm not going to create another account on two, three or a dozen server if I already have a federated account I can use anywhere.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 days ago

It's self hosted which is good enough. I'll just ignore the cloud version and host an instance for me and my buddies.

[-] nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

But then your buddies will want to join some other server, hosted by someone else, and so they will have to create yet another account. And have yet another client running?

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 0 points 1 day ago

For me discord was never a suitable alternative to community forums. It successfully made itself one though but for my use case voice chat with my friends is all I need. I'm only on one server on discord, but I connect to multiple ts3 servers.

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