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Spacebar is a free, opensource selfhostable discord-compatible chat, voice and video platform.

  • Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
  • Selfhostable (Server)
  • Open Source (GitHub Organization)
  • Configurable (Configure every aspect and limits to your needs)
  • Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn't have a single point of failure)
  • Extendable (secure and cross-platform plugin system)
  • Themeable (cross-platform theme system with design editor)
  • Secure (publicly audited and hosted FOSS software for transparent foundation in terms of security)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

2 questions:

  1. Does it stop all the incessant annoying pop-ups and fake notifications?
  2. Does it prevent Discord from selling all of my personal information to ~~Open~~ClosedAI?
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell, it's not Discord, but an open source alternative. So I don't think it talks to regular discord servers, but you can use any Discord compatible client to talk to SpaceBarChat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it talks to regular discord servers

So what does "Discord compatible" mean?

I tried this back when it was "FOSSCORD" and it did indeed connect to Discord.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It means that clients and bots for Discord will also work with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Same API, then?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Well, just glancing at it, it isn't discord. It doesn't connect to discord servers at all.

What it does is replicate discord, in a way that allows users to still make use of things that discord users are already into. Bots in particular.

So discord won't have access to anything that goes on at all, unless you're using something that also connects to discord.

Pop-ups and fake notifications would have more to do with the client you're using than the back-end would, so if you use a client that does those things, I wouldn't bet on that changing.

The caveat: I'm no dev of any kind, so I can't say anything about the actual code, I'm basing this on their own description. I linked the page to my cousin that sometimes will give a quick scan for hinky shit for me, but there's no telling if or when he'll do so nd get back to me.