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Does Anyone Host a Discord Alternative? Like a Matrix/Synapse Server? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by gccalvin to c/selfhosted

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As r/selfhosted seems to have shutdown due to the reddit api changes (rip), I wanted to see if anyone has worked with these services before?

How do they compare to Discord and how hard is it to maintain, as the setup looks pretty in depth for matrix and synapse. How did you convince your user base to use it over Discord.

I've hosted TS3 for about 8 years and are looking for alternatives, as we have to use Discord for screen sharing.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had a private Matrix server for me and a few family members for years now. It doesn't federate, and I'm afraid to try, because I run it on a potato computer and I've heard horror stories of Synapse federation consuming hundreds of gigabytes of space.

It's generally been stable and performant and really nice to use. The only problem is encryption: Element seems to forget keys sometimes and need to resync. And Matrix's whole e2ee system is arcane nonsense to anyone who's not extremely technical. Every time that happens, it's a long tech support call.

The solution is to just not use encryption on chatrooms, which is fine, but DMs have to be encrypted so it still comes up sometimes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am running one as well, also have some bridges between protocols, Discord bridge being among them.

To maintain it is not very hard, appart one thing - database is blowing up constantly and it is a battle to keep it contained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How big does your database get to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

more than 150GB in few years and growing. to at least reduce some size - there is a need of downtime, so that always goes well :D

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