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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] 35 points 1 month ago (23 children)

Why not just use Matrix? I thought it was the goto FOSS and decentralized Discord alternative.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Matrix doesn't offer the same experience as discord. I'm sorry but it doesn't. I set up my own to compare to see if my friend group would like it, and it was quite a step backwards. Even in it's best platform element it was missing a lot of stuff from discord.

So, things like this I'd be very interested to watch. Revolt looked the most promising but it didn't offer federation, and I wasn't going to make everyone have a separate accountjust for our server

So this will be interesting. I will need at least voice to get them to come over, but I'll watch this project closely

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Voice & screensharing seems to be the thing holding all of my friends chained to discord

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, it's a valid reason. I originally joined Discord back in 2016 because of it's easy to use voice. It became the standard for voice chat. Before that I had been using the Xbox party chat and other garbage voice systems.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

We were using Skype... Dark days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Element seems to have voice and video chats in beta right now, and they plan to implement it into the Element application, so it looks like it is on the way at least.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Mumbleb plus moonlight, boom done

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